Eudora welty

Possibly my favorite short story of all time, "Why I Live at the P.O."

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Remembering the famous Mississippi writer’s smashing party recipe

A family holiday recipe

In its first weekend, The Help grossed $2.5 million. But author W. Ralph Eubanks recommends Eudora Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?", featured in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty to show the full picture of a racially charged decade.

These autobiographical essays by the iconic Mississippi writer are divided into three parts: Listening, Learning to See, and Finding a Voice. Taken together they give us an intimate glimpse into Welty’s process, offering rare insight into an author’s origins. A sumptuous must-read.

"Beware of tidiness," for one.

Book a tour of the Jackson, Mississippi home where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty lived, entertained, and wrote all her stories.

Eudora Alice Welty, 1988, Oil on canvas by Mildred Nungester Wolfe Writer Eudora Welty devoted the bulk of her novels and short stories to portraying her native South. The originality of her work led critics to rank her with such literary giants of the twentieth century as William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. One observer has suggested that only other southerners can fully appreciate Welty's command of local idiom and her painstaking attention to time and place. According to one admirer…