Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The flagship library of the Jackson-Hinds Library System, the Eudora Welty Library on State Street in Jackson, Miss., sits closed ...

The bookmobile will hold between 1,500 and 2,000 books.

“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 ...

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 ...

GAUTIER, MS (WLOX) - The late Eudora Welty is considered a great Mississippi and American writer. A lesser known fact about her is that she was also an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty, who ...

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, ...

Eudora Welty and politics : did the writer crusade? / Harriet Pollack -- Welty's transformations of the public, the private, and the political / Peggy Prenshaw -- Engaging the political : in our texts ...

The doors are closed at the Eudora Welty Library, but what’s going to happen next is a big topic of discussion within the Jackson City Council.“We deserve to have libraries,” Councilman Kenneth Stokes ...

For more than half a century, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell wrote letters to each other, a scaffolding for their friendship and a literary form that attracted them both keenly. "All letters, old ...

W. Ralph Eubanks is an author and director of publishing at the Library of Congress. When I went to see the movie The Help last weekend, I didn't want to like it. Yet in spite of its polished ...

Elizabeth Farnsworth looks at the life and work of Eudora Welty with Jackson, Miss. English professor Suzanne Mars, a friend of the late writer and author of The Welty Collection; and Richard Bausch, ...