next we sit down with the director of the wealthy house museum, bridget edwards and eudora welty's niece, mary alice weltry white, to discuss the late author's inspiration a turbulent surprise wedding book "the optimist's daughter". >> as a writer, it is essential. i take the -- i take what i know for granted so i see the new as new and the old as old and i feel i am a judge because my eyes have been trained by experience. so i know where i m as a baam a to see people moving. >> we're the home of eudora welty. a historic landmark. eudora welty was a writer who was born in 1909 and died in 2001. she was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was to receive other than the nobel. she studied throughout the world really, published in many languages. she wrote some short novels. she is best known for her short stories. >> that was the form she most valued, the short story form. she had four collections of short stories, some of which are not that short, totaling just under 50 stories in those collections. >> then modest beginnings which is a short -- it is actually -- eudora w

we sit with the director of the wealthy house museum bridget edwards and her niece mary alice to discuss the inspiration and pulitzer prize-winning book the optimist's daughter. >> i think that it was essential because i take what i know for granted so when i feel i am a judge because my eye has been trained in that experience, so i know where i am and i have a base to see people moving. we are in jackson mississippi at the home. it's a and mark. a writer born in 1809 and died in 2001 she was a writer that one just about every literary prize there was to receive other than the nobel. she is studied throughout the world from publishing in many languages and she wrote some short novels and is best known for her short stories. >> that is the form she most valued so she had four collections of short stories some of which are not that short totaling just under 50 stories in those collections. >> there is one writer's beginning which is a short -- it is actually from the time she was born coming up in jackson to the time of her publication from her story, and it very entertaining. of course i