Author: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 (Keywords)

Originally published in 1946, Eudora Welty's portrait of a large Southern family, the Fairchilds, evokes perfectly the plantations of the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centred around the visit of a young relative, Laura Mc...

'"Watch out for the mosquitoes," they called to one another, lyrically because warning wasn't any use anyway, as they walked out of their kimonos and dropped them like the petals of one big scattered flower on the bank behind them, and exposing themselves felt in a hundred places at once the litt...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author sketches her early life and discusses growing up in the South and the effect of her family and surroundings on her work and personality.