Eudora Wetly was an author and a photographer. Eudora was born on April 13,
1909 in Jackson Mississippi. She grew up in Jackson with schoolteacher mother,
insurance executive father and two brothers. Eudora attended Mississippi College
for Women, graduated from University of Wisconsin (1929) and studied advertising
at Columbia University for a year. During the depression Eudora took photographs
all over Mississippi for the Works Progress Administration. She later wrote for
the New York Time Book Review and traveled to Ireland, England, France, and
Italy. Eudora Welty won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Optimist's
Daughter in 1973 and French Legion of Honor - (France’s highest
civilian honor) in 1996. The creator of Eudora email program named it
after Eudora because he remembered reading one of her stories called "Why I live
at the P.O." Eudora Wetly died in 2001 at the age of 92! Eudora Welty was known
as a humble and kind woman always ready to make others comfortable wherever they
were.
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