{"id":465,"date":"2011-04-14T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2011-04-14T03:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T03:02:57","slug":"eudora-welty-1909-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/eudora-welty-1909-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Eudora Welty, 1909-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite authors, Eudora Welty, was born 102 years ago today. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been almost 10 years since I attended her funeral, which I wrote about for the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gale.cengage.com\/servlet\/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&#038;imprint=000&#038;cf=p&#038;titleCode=DLBYB&#038;type=3&#038;dc=null&#038;dewey=null&#038;id=178289\">Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was privileged to meet Miss Welty at a writing conference in the late 1980s. In this photo, I&#8217;m handing her my first edition of her novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0156252805\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mjtate-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0156252805\">Delta Wedding<\/a><\/em> to sign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/meeting-Eudora-Welty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/meeting-Eudora-Welty-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"meeting Eudora Welty\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/meeting-Eudora-Welty-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/meeting-Eudora-Welty.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read Welty, start with her delightful autobiographical volume, <em>One Writer&#8217;s Beginnings<\/em>. It&#8217;s one of my favorite books.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=mjtate-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0674639278&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/mwp\/dir\/welty_eudora\/index.html\">Mississippi Writers Page<\/a> is a great place to start finding out more about Eudora Welty. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite authors, Eudora Welty, was born 102 years ago today. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;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 &#8230; <a title=\"Eudora Welty, 1909-2001\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/eudora-welty-1909-2001\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eudora Welty, 1909-2001\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}