Considered a masterpiece, The Diary of Anne Frank is an actual diary written by a young Jewish girl before she was taken away by the Nazis during World War II. Some of the more memorable passages in the diary are about the difficulties of growing up and dealing with family members.

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) depicts the changing landscape of the American South in the early 1900s.

Conversations with Peter Taylor, published in 1987, is a collection of interviews with the author of "A Spinster's Tale." These pieces provide insight into Taylor's thought processes as an artist. Also, Parting the Curtains (1994) is a book of interviews with many Southern writers, including Taylor, Eleanor Ross, Shelby Foote, Maya Angelou, Pat Conroy, and William Styron.

There are many studies of Taylor's life and work, including most recently, Critical Essays on...