Welty attended Central High School in Jackson Mississippi, between 19. Perhaps the influence of her father, who came from Ohio, and her mother, who was a native of West Virginia, have made her a more universal-type writer. Although born in the South, some critics do not consider her to be a Southern writer. She also recalls reciting the alphabet along with crediting her father for giving her a strong meteorological sensibility at an early age. She explains, “You learned the alphabet like you learned your address and phone number in case you got lost” (DiConsiglio 4). In fact, says DiConsiglio, “Books were so valued that once when the house caught a fire, her mother threw out volumes of Dickens before getting herself to safety.” Welty also remembers the importance of knowing the alphabet. Eudora, the oldest and only daughter of the family, recalls in her autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings the importance of reading in her childhood home. The house Welty’s family lived in was built by her father when he and his wife first moved to Jackson. Read photographer Mark Wilkins’s story of his day with Eudora Welty belowĮudora Alice Welty was born April 13, 1909, at the Welty estate on North Congress Street in Jackson, Mississippi, to Christian Webb and Chestina Andrew Welty.
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Photo of Eudora Welty by Mark Wilkins, used with permission