“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 ...

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 ..

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 ...

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 ...

Over a lifetime, the experience of reading biographies seems to fall into a few categories. Sometimes one already knows quite a lot about a figure, such as Hemingway or Fitzgerald, and one learns ...

Begun in 1915 and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Southwest Review is the third oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Selections from ...

Babette’s Feast. Directed by Gabriel Axel, performance by Stéphane Audran, produced by Just Betzer and Bo Christensen, 1987. Black, Patti Carr, editor. Early Escapades, by Eudora Welty. UP of ...

<p>Eudora Welty was the master of short stories notable for their imagery, sharp dialogue and fierce wit. A revered figure in contemporary American letters, she wrote from her home in Jackson, Miss., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...