“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 ...

W. Ralph Eubanks is an author and director of publishing at the Library of Congress. When I went to see the movie The Help last weekend, I didn't want to like it. Yet in spite of its polished ...

”I am a writer who came of a sheltered life,” reflects Eudora Welty in her ”One Writer`s Beginnings.” She insists, however, that ”a sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring ...

THIS NEW GRANT COULD MEAN FOR THE DOORS OF THE EUDORA WELTY LIBRARY. >> HAVE BEEN SHUT FOR MONTHS NOW, BUT THEY WILL SOON BE OPEN AGAIN. JUST IN ANOTHER LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON. >> I KNOW IT’S ...

Friends and fans gathered in Jackson, Miss., this week to remember the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's birth with parties, lectures and concerts. Almost any intro-to-literature ...

Steinbeck had Salinas and Philip Roth has Newark. But Eudora Welty is indivisible from Jackson, the capital and cultural heart of Mississippi, just as Jackson is from Welty. A quintessential Southern ...

Now, remembering two women of distinction: Katharine Graham of the Washington Post, and author Eudora Welty. Miss Welty died today in Jackson, Mississippi, the town she had lived in and written about ...

For more than half a century, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell wrote letters to each other, a scaffolding for their friendship and a literary form that attracted them both keenly. "All letters, old ...

The electric typewriter used by Eudora Welty in her final years sits on the desk next to the large windows in her bedroom. AP The short story. A compact piece of prose typically read in one sitting, ...

Funeral services were held this weekend for Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer, is shown here on March 29, 1955. (AP) Welty's niece, Mary ...

In the spare and shadowy photograph "Child on the Porch, 1935-1936," a fair-haired, fair-skinned girl in a flowered dress balances on a wooden rail, her arm wrapped around a post. Her serious young ...

EUDORA WELTY has spent her life telling stories, and although her typewriter has now stopped, the stories keep flowing. On a recent 100-degree Mississippi morning, she leaned forward from a large blue ...