Fans mourn death, celebrate life of Eudora Welty

By Staff
From staff, wire reports
July 24, 2001
JACKSON  Her fans began mourning the death of Eudora Welty on Monday even as they celebrated her extraordinary life as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose vintage Mississippi stories captivated readers worldwide.
Welty said fiction provided her with the most productive tool for analyzing human personality.
I'm not any kind of prophet, but I think it's in our nature to talk, to tell stories, appreciate stories,'' she said in a 1991 interview. I think you write about whatever's current. … They won't be the same kind of stories, but they'll be about human beings.''