. >> i'm here for the eudora welty lecture. i'm in the board of directors of the eudora welty foundation and its national advisory. our mission is to preserve the literary legacy of eudora welty and to encourage writers in literature. the eudora welty lecture is a collaborative enterprise of the wesley foundation and the faulkner foundation whose mission is to promote the love of the written. the lecture is made possible by generous contributions from author down in memory of her mother, aileen wallace and her grandmother, aileen lampton wallace and also by the family of eudorawelty . in april 1983, eudora gave a series of lectures at harvard university . the lectures were collected as a volume of essays entitled one writer's beginnings. published by the harvard university press, one writers beginnings stayed on the new york times bestseller list for almost a year. the essays detailed the inescapable bond between eudora's childhood and her later career as a writer. and after early experiences contributed to her distinctive lite

. >> i'm here for the eudora welty lecture. i'm in the board of directors of the eudora welty foundation and its national advisory. our mission is to preserve the literary legacy of eudora welty and to encourage writers in literature. the eudora welty lecture is a collaborative enterprise of the