Eudora Welty was born in Jackson on April 13, 1909. She was considered one of the greatest American writers. Described as the "first lady of Southern literature" and the "literary voice and soul of the South."
In 1973, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel "The Optimists' Daughter."
Her first major published work was "Death of a Traveling Salesman,"
Her first novel, "Delta Wedding," was published in 1946.
Welty's last work was "Country Churchyards," a book of 90 black-and-white photographs taken in Mississippi graveyards during the 1930s and 1940s. …
