Eudora Welty Books in Order

On the Natchez Trace, legendary outlaws mingle with frontier settlers in a world drawn from fairy tales. When bandit Jamie Lockhart steals planter Clement Musgrove’s daughter Rosamond, their encounter sets a strange and dangerous courtship in motion.

In 1923, young Laura McRaven visits the Fairchild family’s Mississippi plantation as preparations unfold for her cousin Dabney’s wedding. Everyday conversations and rituals reveal the attachments and tensions within a sprawling Southern family.

Daniel Ponder’s extravagant generosity threatens his wealthy Mississippi family’s fortune. His niece Edna Earle tries to have him institutionalized, setting off a chain of mistaken identities, marriages and calamities that eventually brings the family into a murder trial.

Arturo the parrot greets customers at the Friendly Shoe Store until he repeats a boy’s complaint that shoes are for birds. Those borrowed words send his life in an unexpected direction in a story for young readers.

This collection brings together thirteen stories written by Eudora Welty between 1937 and 1951. Selected by Ruth M. Vande Kieft, it offers an introduction to the author's work in short fiction.

Three generations of Granny Vaughn’s family gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. As relatives exchange stories, their memories and competing accounts bring the family’s past into the midst of the reunion.

Eudora Welty selects one hundred photographs taken during the Depression in Mississippi. Portraits and scenes of daily life document communities coping with poverty, revealing the human connections and persistence she observed while traveling through her home state.

Eudora Welty reflects on the craft of fiction and the work of writers including Jane Austen, Chekhov and Virginia Woolf. Essays and reviews examine how language, observation and imagination shape the relationship between reading and writing.

Forty-one stories trace Eudora Welty's range across three decades, from everyday Southern life to folklore and myth. Comic and unsettling encounters explore family, race, history and the Mississippi communities that shaped her fiction.

Eudora Welty recalls her Mississippi childhood and the family, teachers and surroundings that shaped her imagination. Memories of books, voices, travel and early photography become an exploration of how everyday experience develops into a writer's art.

Welty's photographs document everyday life in 1930s Mississippi alongside scenes from her travels in America, Mexico and Europe. The images reveal the people, places and ordinary encounters observed by a writer whose visual work developed alongside her fiction.

Eudora Welty considers William Faulkner through reviews, essays, lectures, letters, and personal recollections. Her encounters with the writer and responses to his fiction reveal both her critical judgment and the relationship between two central figures in Mississippi literature.

More than sixty short pieces reveal Eudora Welty's interests beyond her best-known fiction. Stories, essays, reviews, tributes, and humorous observations explore art, public life, and fellow writers, gathering work that had largely remained unreprinted since its original appearance.