Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. She wrote some of my favorite works of fiction and some of my favorite essays about fiction. In “Must the Novelist Crusade?” she writes, “What distinguishes [fiction] above all from the raw material, and what distinguishes it from journalism, is that inherent in the novel is the possibility of a shared act of the imagination between its writer and its reader.” She also says that “There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.” True that, Eudora. True that.
Here is some material for you to enjoy and honor Welty on her birthday:
A Tribute to Eudora Welty on PRI’s Selected Shorts including a wonderful reading of “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies”
ejstockstill.com 