“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 ...

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 ...

For more than half a century, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell wrote letters to each other, a scaffolding for their friendship and a literary form that attracted them both keenly. "All letters, old ...

W. Ralph Eubanks is an author and director of publishing at the Library of Congress. When I went to see the movie The Help last weekend, I didn't want to like it. Yet in spite of its polished ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The flagship library of the Jackson-Hinds Library System, the Eudora Welty Library on State Street in Jackson, Miss., sits closed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is allowing the public to have access to additional ...

Funeral services were held this weekend for Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer, is shown here on March 29, 1955. (AP) Welty's niece, Mary ...

"To make a prairie,” Emily Dickinson once wrote, “it takes a clover and one bee, / . . . And revery.” But “the revery alone will do, / If bees are few.” To make a great literary biography it takes a ...

Elizabeth Farnsworth looks at the life and work of Eudora Welty with Jackson, Miss. English professor Suzanne Mars, a friend of the late writer and author of The Welty Collection; and Richard Bausch, ...

The current issue of Oxford American contains excerpts from a forthcoming book called “What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Wiliam Maxwell,” edited by Suzanne ...