Eudora Welty penned most of her literary masterpieces in her Jackson, Mississippi, home. “When she was living in New York, her mother would send camellias by express train from Jackson, and they would ...

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 electric typewriter used by Eudora Welty in her final years sits on the desk next to the large windows in her bedroom. AP The short story. A compact piece of prose typically read in one sitting, ...

Eudora Welty's 1963 short story about the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be published in its original form this weekend in the Mississippi newspaper The Clarion Ledger.

There’s something very special about pass-along plants. Fond memories bloom right along with all the flowers. I have some spider lilies in my back garden that were passed along to me by a book-group ...

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 ...

Novelist Eudora Welty loved gardens and gardening, and her vivid descriptions of the flowers, shrubs and trees of her native South fill her writings. This weekend in Welty's home town of Jackson, Miss ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- For many gardeners, visiting unique and historic landscapes is part of the joy of cultivating their own. Just a three-hour drive from Shreveport, the Eudora Welty House and Garden in ...

Fans of Mississippi short story writer, novelist and photographer Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001) will gather Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, for a celebratory weekend honoring the author’s ...

“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 ...