Eudora attended Central High School in Jackson, Mississippi between 1921 and 1925. After she completed High School she went to Mississippi State College for Woman in Columbus, Mississippi from 1

In 1973, May the 2nd was designated to be the Eudora Welty Day in Mississippi. The Eudora Welty-Americana Award has been established in her name by Mississippi for ETV. The Eudora Welty New American Playwrights Series was established by New Stage Theater and The Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Studies was established by Millsaps College. All of these in honor of Eudora Welty.

was looking for jobs in advertising and publicity. The first job that she had was part time with the local radio station. Then, she got a full time job with Works Progress Administration as a Junior Publicity Agent. Her duties in this job was to write newspaper articles, taking photos of places after there had been destruction, putting booths up at county fairs and interviewing lots of different people. In an interview Eudora had with Jean Todd Freeman, she said “It took me all over Mississippi, which was the most important thing to me, because I had never seen it…[The experience] was the real germ of my wanting to become a real writer, a true writer”.

In 1946, Delta Wedding, her first novel was p

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