The memory can be hurt, time and again—but in that may lie its final mercy. As long as it’s vulnerable to the living moment, it lives for us, and while it lives, and while we are able, we can give it ...

The Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series presents a program called “Eudora Welty – And her Appalachian Ohio Roots” by ...

Jeanne Williams, the new Jackson/Hinds library director, is tackling aging buildings, funding gaps and public trust in a push ...

Fried Green Tomatoes” author Fannie Flagg is an optimist by nature. The Birmingham native hopes her new book will spread ...

Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish American writer Mary Lavin had sixteen stories published in The New Yorker, after J. D.

Eudora Welty is perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Optimist's Daughter (1972), but for many The Golden Apples (1949) is her masterpiece.

Eudora Welty dreamed of camellias. More specifically, she once had an all-night dream in which she watched “all the billions of camellias in the world” gradually narrow down to millions and ...

Nearly a quarter of a century after her death, Mississippi writer Eudora Welty remains as relevant as ever, as a new documentary and related book project make clear. Welty, who died at 92 in her ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University Assistant Professor Kemeshia Swanson is this year’s recipient of the Eudora Welty Prize for her new book “Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a ...

Louisiana Inspired Book Club next selection is The Optimist's Daughter by Southern novelist Eudora Welty. Pick up your copy today and read along with us!