These beloved Southern blooms were a favorite of the Jackson native and literary genius. Eudora Welty dreamed of camellias. More specifically, she once had an all-night dream in which she watched ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Jackson native Eudora Welty would have turned 116 this April, and the city is pulling out ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South. She received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter.

On a recent morning in Jackson, Mississippi, the garden where novelist Eudora Welty once muddied her knees, fussed over camellias and cultivated a lifetime of stories hums with life. Bees hover ...

It is a city steeped in literary magic, and at its heart lies the legacy of one of the South’s most celebrated writers: Eudora Welty. From the historic Belhaven neighborhood to flower-draped ...

ASHLAND Kyle Alvey, a doctoral student at Purdue University, has been named the 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellow. Alvey will use archival holdings in the Eudora Welty Collection housed at ...

Oh, those Southern writers. Harper Lee, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty — the list is quite long. And now, ...

Top: Painter Jason Bouldin stands in his Oxford studio. 'Jason Bouldin: Corporeal Nature,' a documentary by Ole Miss students ...

"I was trying to write very personal essays about people I feel strongly about, with as much passion and humor and poignancy ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/womens-history/The-Writers-Eye.html Scholars and friends of Eudora Welty discuss how her hobby influenced ...

For more information on the archival collections or the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, call Elisabeth Cambonga at (601) 576-6868, or by email at [email protected]. Advertisement About Our Ads ...