W elty, E udora A lice

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909 and raised in a household filled with books and reading. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, attended Mississippi State College for women for two years, and finished her BA (English) at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison in 1929. In 1930 she went to Columbia University, where she enrolled in an advertising and secretarial program. New York City was a bigger classroom, but Welty's education outside the South was cut off when her father died in 1931. She would return many times for visits, and even worked at the New York Times Book Review during World War II, but Jackson remained her home and the hub of her writing career for the rest of her life. She died July 23, 2001.