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Salon: Eudora Welty
January 27, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Southern Literary Salons
A literary party from 6:00-8:00 pm featuring writer-specific libations, light fare, and at least 30 Southern-inspired minutes of influential writers in a private, gracious home. Tickets are $55 for one Salon or $100 for both, and include the entertainment, open bar, and fare.
Eudora Welty: Mississippi Myth
January 27, 2017
Hosted by Nancy Copp in her legendary Germantown home
She described writing fiction as “a personal act of vision.” Eudora Welty (1900-2001) was widely popular as a writer and photographer from her lifelong home in Jackson, MS. Welty was at literary home seemingly only in experimentation, her vast skill-set ranging from comedy to tragedy, realistic to surreal, fiction to biography, fairy tale to history – always in the South. Her canon includes the short stories in A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, and The Golden Apples, and the novels The Ponder Heart and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist’s Daughter.