Nearly a quarter of a century after her death, Mississippi writer Eudora Welty remains as relevant as ever, as a new documentary and related book project make clear. Welty, who died at 92 in her ...

“The Eye of the Story” by Eudora Welty (Random House, 1978) might not be one of Welty's most well-known works. It is a collection of essays on writers, writing, reviews and a small collection of ...

“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 ...

Eudora Welty, arguably the best American short-story writer of her generation, and Ross Macdonald, the finest detective novelist of the 1950s and '60s, first met May 17, 1971, near the elevator in the ...

Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty were titans of fiction: he a mystery writer whose work, like his California compatriots in noir Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosley, encompassed not just murder but the ...

Socialites and other Mississippians were likely struck by a feature story that appeared in the Jackson Daily News in 1930. “Flowers Talk in Languages of All Races,” written by a young Jacksonite named ...

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 members of her family. The ...

The next Louisiana Inspired Book Club selection is "The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty. The virtual discussion will take place at 12:15 p.m. Dec. 10. The book has also been selected as this year ...

Before she met Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty adamantly opposed the idea of a biography and in numerous interviews had refused to talk about her personal life. Her own 1984 book, One Writer's Beginnings, ...

Eighty years ago Friday, young Eudora Welty sent a letter to the New Yorker seeking employment. This was four decades before she would win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “The Optimist’s Daughter” ...

The Jackson Hinds Library System is helping readers score some great deals.The library bookstore that was at Metrocenter Mall has been moved to a room in the Eudora Welty Library. The store in the ...