Eudora Welty, 1909-2001

April 14, 2011

One of my favorite authors, Eudora Welty, was born 102 years ago today. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 10 years since I attended her funeral, which I wrote about for the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook.
I was privileged to meet Miss Welty at a writing conference in the late 1980s. In this photo, [...]