Perspective

Eudora Welty wrote One Writer's Beginnings. She was raised by parents who were dedicated to her learning and encouraged both Eudora and her younger brothers, Edward and Walter, to read and become educated. From her youth, Eudora Welty is in love with books and words. With her parents' encouragement, Welty went to college at Mississippi State College for Women during her freshmen and sophomore years, following this with completing her undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin. She then attended Columbia University School of Business in New York City.

Though she started writing early in life, Eudora Welty began writing professionally shortly after the Great Depression ended. She published her first story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman" in 1936, which she followed with the publication of A Curtain of Green, her first book in 1941. Additionally, she has written numerous other short stories and novels, such as "Why I Live at...