Eudora Welty dreamed of camellias ... “She loved all of her flowers individually and pored over reference books and catalogs.” It was the author, Russell says, who filled the “camellia ...

Eudora Welty was a short story writer and novelist known for her portrayals of the American South. She received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter.

Eudora Welty’s life was as colorful and multifaceted as the characters in her stories. Born in 1909, she grew up in Jackson, ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/womens-history/The-Writers-Eye.html Scholars and friends of Eudora Welty discuss how her hobby influenced ...