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Suzanne Marrs, an English professor at Millsaps College in Mississippi, will speak on “Eudora Welty: The Woman and the Myths” at 4 p.m. Sept. 23 in UNC’s George Watts Hill Alumni Center on Stadium Drive.

Marrs wrote “Eudora Welty, A Biography,” (Harcourt, 2005). Her research for the past 25 years has centered upon the life and work of Welty.

Welty is widely recognized as one of the 20th century’s most distinguished writers. She received the French Legion Honor, won a Pulitzer Prize and received honorary doctorates from the nation’s best colleges and universities. But she also became a sort of cultural icon, a celebrity revered, paradoxically, for her sheltered, unworldly life.

Now, Marrs hopes to demonstrate, through new biographical materials and a personal friendship between the two, that Welty’s openness to experience complemented her creative genius and enriched her personal life

Suzanne Marrs’s Web site:
http://home.millsaps.edu/marrss/

Center for the Study of the American South contact:
Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, (919) 962-0503, csasnancy@gmail.com
News Services contact: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589, laura_toler@unc.edu

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