Alabama poet laureate Ashley M. Jones will be the keynote speaker this week at the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium in Columbus – a gathering that highlights authors and poets from across the South.

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 ...

"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" is the only thing Eudora Welty ever wrote in anger. On June 12, 1963, Eudora Welty reacted with fury to the news that Mississippi's most prominent civil rights leader ...

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 ...

Eudora Welty and politics : did the writer crusade? / Harriet Pollack -- Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Prenshaw -- Engaging the political : in our texts ...

I was seduced by Eudora Welty. I had every reason to distrust her, as I had distrusted Faulkner—both of them products of the middle-class South I disdained in preference for what I called the real ...

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Novelist and short story writer Eudora Welty, whose meticulous depictions of life in the South won her a Pulitzer Prize, died Monday. She was 92. Welty, who was also acclaimed for her heart-wrenching ...

Editor’s Note: A Southerner born in Jackson, Mississippi, and educated at the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia, EUDORA WELTY is one of the most versatile ...

Before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Eudora Welty tried her hand at photography for the better part of decade. Although none of her photographs were published, the experience informed her ...

On June 12, 1963, Eudora Welty reacted with fury to the news that Mississippi's most prominent civil rights leader had been killed at his Jackson home less than 4 miles from her doorstep. "That hot ..