Eudora welty biography youtube documentary ancient

When fans envision Eudora Welty, one of the titans of Mississippi literature, they might picture an elderly woman at a typewriter by the window of her house on Pinehurst Street in Jackson.

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“But she was so much more than that,” says Anthony Thaxton. Or, to put it another way: “She was not just a little matron. She was a badass,” says the writer W. Ralph Eubanks in Eudora, the new documentary Thaxton produced with his wife, Amy, and the restaurateur and author Robert St.

John through the Institute for Southern Storytelling at Mississippi College. Drawing on unprecedented access to Welty’s home videos, family papers, and personal photos, the documentary unveils the woman behind the words.

Eudora welty biography youtube documentary ancient

She supported civil rights, refusing to read in front of segregated crowds. She engaged in a romance of letters (some four hundred) with a married man. She won a Charleston dance competition while studying