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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Mississippi (CNN) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty died Monday, according to a spokeswoman at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. She was 92. Welty was pronounced dead at 12:25 ...

Eudora Welty, arguably the best American short-story writer of her generation, and Ross Macdonald, the finest detective novelist of the 1950s and '60s, first met May 17, 1971, near the elevator in the ...

In the spare and shadowy photograph "Child on the Porch, 1935-1936," a fair-haired, fair-skinned girl in a flowered dress balances on a wooden rail, her arm wrapped around a post. Her serious young ...

EUDORA WELTY has spent her life telling stories, and although her typewriter has now stopped, the stories keep flowing. On a recent 100-degree Mississippi morning, she leaned forward from a large blue ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Black artists in comics, Alphonse Mucha-inspired pop-up tattoo salons, and an ode to Essex Hemphill are some of the upcoming exhibitions opening in D.C. this spring. Art and writings by Willie Cole, ...