Welty, Eudora

An elderly African-American woman who lives out in the country makes the long and arduous journey into town, as she has done manytimes in the past.

Uncle Daniel Ponder, who desires to give away his fortune, is the talk of Clay County and a source of vexation for his niece. He marries a seventeen-year old girl who will inherit his fortune. When she disappears, Uncle Daniel is tried for her murder.

The autobiography of the fiction writer Eudora Welty whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. Many members of the family begin telling stories of the past.

Presents the autobiography of the fiction writer whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

A woman who has left the South returns when her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up.