It was Eudora Welty's eyes that writer Toni Morrison most vividly recalled when the two authors met decades ago. "She had these little round, piercing eyes that kept moving in her head. She saw ...

“Really, don’t people know the first thing about the South?” Welty asked The Times in 1970, when her novel “Losing Battles” was published. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced grants ...

HER appearance was deceptive. On acquaintance, Eudora Welty seemed a nice little old lady with impeccable manners, an impression reinforced by her ugly but endearing froggy face. Yet her writing ...

Author Eudora Welty, of Jackson, Miss., is shown in 1972 at an unknown location. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced that on April 13, 2022, the 113th anniversary of Weltys ...

Elizabeth Farnsworth looks at the life and work of Eudora Welty with Jackson, Miss. English professor Suzanne Mars, a friend of the late writer and author of The Welty Collection; and Richard Bausch, ...

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Eudora Welty penned most of her literary masterpieces in her Jackson, Mississippi, home. “When she was living in New York, her mother would send camellias by express train from Jackson, and they would ...

The current issue of Oxford American contains excerpts from a forthcoming book called “What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Wiliam Maxwell,” edited by Suzanne ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is allowing the public to have access to additional papers from the late author Eudora Welty, including letters written by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Eudora Welty met Ross Macdonald at the Algonquin Hotel in New York on a warm afternoon in 1971, she was a much-decorated author of short stories and novels about her native Mississippi, such as ...