Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South.
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Library of America
Nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.
Nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.
The initial organizers included American academic Daniel Aaron, Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer, and Roger W. Straus Jr. The initial board of advisers included Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, R. W. B. Lewis, Robert Coles, Irving Howe, and Eudora Welty.
Harvard University Press
Publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
Publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.
The New Yorker
American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
In subsequent decades, the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Ann Beattie, Sally Benson, Maeve Brennan, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Mavis Gallant, Geoffrey Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Ruth McKenney, John McNulty, Joseph Mitchell, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Philip Roth, George Saunders, J. D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and E. B. White.
The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning short novel by Eudora Welty.
Richard Ford
American novelist and short story writer.
American novelist and short story writer.
In Jackson, Ford lived across the street from the home of author Eudora Welty.
Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by a white supremacist.
American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi who was assassinated by a white supremacist.
Evers was memorialized by leading Mississippi and national authors both black and white: James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, and Anne Moody.
National Book Award
For the National Book Award of the United States.
For the National Book Award of the United States.
1991: Eudora Welty
Mississippi University for Women
Coeducational public university in Columbus, Mississippi.
Coeducational public university in Columbus, Mississippi.
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jackson, Mississippi
Capital and most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi.
Capital and most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi.
Author Eudora Welty was born in Jackson in 1909, lived most of her life in the Belhaven section of the city, and died there in 2001.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
One of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
One of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
Throughout the Academy's history, 10,000 fellows have been elected, including such notables as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Duke Ellington.