It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...

She also publiEudora Weltyd a collection of photographs depicting the Great Depression titled "One Time One Place" in 1971. Examples can be found within the short story "A Worn Path" the novel Delta Wedding and the collection of short stories The Golden Apples. She solidified her place as an influential Southern writer when Eudora Welty penned her first book of short stories A Curtain of Green.

She was the first living author to have her works publiEudora Weltyd by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson Mississippi is a National Historic Landmark and open to the public as a museum. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom among numerous awards.