AFTER STANDING FOR NEARLY 80 YEARS, IT IS TIME TO BID FAREWELL TO THE OLD EUDORA WELTY LIBRARY. MANY JACKSONIANS RECALL MEMORIES OF READING, STUDYING OR MAYBE EVEN JUST HANGING OUT AT THE STATE STREET ...

You won’t find Eudora Welty, the fiction writer and memoirist who died Monday at 92, on the California Department of Education’s recommended reading list, and that’s too bad. Schoolchildren who don’t ...

THIS NEW GRANT COULD MEAN FOR THE DOORS OF THE EUDORA WELTY LIBRARY. >> HAVE BEEN SHUT FOR MONTHS NOW, BUT THEY WILL SOON BE OPEN AGAIN. JUST IN ANOTHER LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON. >> I KNOW IT’S ...

The next Louisiana Inspired Book Club selection is Eudora Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter." It's a short book that won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for Welty in 1973. (It's so short that if you ...

Funeral services were held this weekend for Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer, is shown here on March 29, 1955. (AP) Welty's niece, Mary ...

I wonder if Eudora Welty would embrace the “portrait setting” on today’s mobile phone cameras? Best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Welty was also an accomplished photographer. Her mother ...

“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 ...

The next Louisiana Inspired Book Club selection is "The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty. The virtual discussion will take place at 12:15 p.m. Dec. 10. The book has also been selected as this year ...