On Katherine Bell

Katherine Bell's description of what her British post World War II woman finds buried in her backyard—her tiny garden—electrified me, not by what she found but by the delicacy of the description of what she found. A real writer.

—Frank Conroy, director of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and author of four books: Stop-Time, Midair, Body & Soul, and Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On.