At the annual meeting of SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) I gave a paper about Redbook magazine and the novels by Black women writers it condensed for publication during the 1970s. Research for this paper has taken me to the Alice Walker papers at Emory University, where I discovered that Walker, while interviewing Coretta Scott King for Redbook, had mentioned the magazine’s condensation of The Third Life of Grange Copeland, her first novel, before eventually gifting the full novel to King. Going through my notes from that archival trip I’ve realized that Walker also gifted Grange to Eudora Welty after she interviewed the novelist for Ms.