Marrs To Receive Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, Nominated for Mystery Writers’ Edgar Award
Suzanne Marrs—Welty’s biographer and friend and a Welty scholar of note— will receive the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, along with journalist Jerry Mitchell, from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration on February 27 in Natchez, Mississippi. Eudora Welty received the first Richard Wright Award in 1994. The awards program is at 10:30 a.m. at the Natchez […] Read more »
Sanderson Family, Hardin Foundation Support Welty Chair of Southern Literature at Millsaps
Efforts to endow the Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature at Millsaps College received a significant boost recently with two gifts of $500,000 each from Joe and Kathy Sanderson of Laurel, Mississippi, and the Phil Hardin Foundation. Their combined $1,000,000 is called the Sanderson-Hardin Challenge and will be used to stimulate other contributions to meet the $2.5 […] Read more »
Applications Being Received until March 4 for 2016 Welty Graduate Research Fellowship
The Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) have announced the 2016 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, to encourage and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection and related materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History by graduate students. The deadline for applications has been extended until March 4. This […] Read more »
“An Evening of Eudora Welty” Featuring Claire Holley Set in Santa Monica, CA, March 13
“An Evening of Eudora Welty” featuring singer-songwriter Claire Holley and other guests will be held Sunday, March 13, at the Ruskin Group Theatre’s monthly “Library Girl” program in Santa Monica, California, at 7 p.m. Other guests include author Tom Nolan, co-editor with Suzanne Marrs of Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross […] Read more »