On a recent morning in Jackson, Mississippi, the garden where novelist Eudora Welty once muddied her knees, fussed over camellias and cultivated a lifetime of stories hums with life. Bees hover ...

Eudora Welty’s life was as colorful and multifaceted as the characters in her stories. Born in 1909, she grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, surrounded by books and storytelling, which fueled her ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/womens-history/The-Writers-Eye.html Scholars and friends of Eudora Welty discuss how her hobby influenced ...

The Eudora Welty Library, first opened in the late '80s ... Plans to tear down the building quickly developed, and the library's books and furniture were moved to storage over the course of ...