Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is allowing the public to have access to additional ...

The electric typewriter used by Eudora Welty in her final years sits on the desk next to the large windows in her bedroom. AP The short story. A compact piece of prose typically read in one sitting, ...

“Really, don’t people know the first thing about the South?” Welty asked The Times in 1970, when her novel “Losing Battles” was published. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced grants ...

In the spare and shadowy photograph "Child on the Porch, 1935-1936," a fair-haired, fair-skinned girl in a flowered dress balances on a wooden rail, her arm wrapped around a post. Her serious young ...

Eudora Welty's 1963 short story about the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be published in its original form this weekend in the Mississippi newspaper The Clarion Ledger.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Fans of Mississippi short story writer, novelist and photographer Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001) will gather Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, for a celebratory weekend honoring the author’s ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is allowing the public to have access to additional papers from the late author Eudora Welty, including letters written by ...

I was seduced by Eudora Welty. I had every reason to distrust her, as I had distrusted Faulkner—both of them products of the middle-class South I disdained in preference for what I called the real ...

Author Eudora Welty, of Jackson, Miss., is shown in 1972 at an unknown location. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced that on April 13, 2022, the 113th anniversary of Weltys ...