First Lady of Southern Literature

Born April 13, 1909, Welty spent what she describes as an idyllic childhood in Jackson, Mississippi with her two brothers, Edward and Walter, and her parents, Chestina, a schoolteacher, and Christian, an insurance executive. Eudora was the oldest sibling as well as the only girl in the family. Welty lived in her family's homes in Jackson for most of her ninety-two years. (Literary Cavalcade 26-30) Welty attended college for two years at Mississippi State College for Women and then spent several years at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and a year in New York City, studying advertising at the Columbia University business school. She had to return to Jackson, Mississippi in 1931 because of her father died from leukemia, and she worked at a local radio station and wrote about the Jackson social scene for the Memphis, Tennessee, "Commercial Appeal", a newspaper circulated throughout Northwest Mississippi. (The Eudora Welty Foundation)
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