Petrified Man

The Library of America • Story of the Week
Reprinted from Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir
(The Library of America, 1992), pages 22–36.
First published in the Southern Review (Spring 1939) and collected in A Curtain of Green
and Other Stories (1941). Copyright © 1939 by Eudora Welty; copyright renewed © 1967.
Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for Eudora Welty LLC.
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