/lit/ - Literature

For me it's Welty.

>>21995711
This kind of reminds me of the short story "The Winds" by Eudora Welty, where this girl obsessively idolizes another girl in her neighborhood, because she is popular and talented. IIRC, the girls don't even meet at all.
Welty is an incredibly interesting writer and underrated by /lit/. She's sometimes lumped together with Southern Gothic authors but the label doesn't really describe her, she just wrote lit. Based on her writing and letters, it's possible she never ever had sex. She told her mentor Katherine Anne Porter, when Welty was 32, that she was still a virgin, and Porter remarked "you always will be." So I think her perspective of girls who were losers, the way your protagonist would be, is pretty true.

Definitely my favorite girl.