Books
The best job inquiry letter ever: Eudora Welty to the New Yorker
March 15, 2013
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 social and political entwined in cities like L.A. and fictional Santa Teresa; she a novelist and short-story writer who added to the literary fame of Jackson, Miss., with her Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction exploring familial and historical passions in small-town Mississippi.
July 30, 2015
Eighty years ago Friday, young Eudora Welty sent a letter to the New Yorker seeking employment.
Eudora Welty: A Biography; Suzanne Marrs; Harcourt: 652 pp., $28 Eudora Welty: The Contemporary Reviews; Edited by Pearl McHaney; Cambridge University Press: 394 pp., $130
Aug. 21, 2005
Television
It happens too often to be a fluke.
Jan. 3, 1989
Obituaries
Eudora Welty, one of modern America’s most celebrated writers, a lyrical homebody who found great moments in the commonplace, died Monday in Jackson, Miss.
July 24, 2001
Writer Eudora Welty is known primarily for her stories about the American South.
Aug. 29, 1991
The home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty will become the property of the state and a literary shrine, the Archives and History Department announced Friday.
Oct. 18, 1986
Literature: Her stories of Mississippi illuminated the profundity of everyday life.
Archives
The Jackson-Hinds Library System of Jackson, Mississippi, opened the Eudora Welty Room June 1.
Sept. 22, 1991