She was often classified into the category of the new generation of Southern writers, alongside her contemporaries like Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty and Catherine Anne Porter, etc.

• 她生前通常被划入第二代南方女作家群中，与卡森·麦卡勒斯，尤多拉·韦尔蒂和凯瑟林·安·波特等人齐名。