This publication presents novels and stories by two leading representatives of modern US prose. Having gained worldwide fame with her novel “Ship of Fools,” Katherine Anne Porter appears in the one-volume book as an extraordinary master of short prose, combining interest in the eternal themes of life, death, and freedom with the ability to penetrate the hidden depths of the characters’ inner world. The main creative victories of Eudora Welty, a virtuoso stylist and ironic observer of human dramas that are so rich in everyday life, are associated with short prose.