Eudora Welty

Like most people, I enjoy collecting the odd bit of trivia. One of the more interesting pieces I picked up recently was about that great American writer, Eudora Welty. She's one of those writers who qualify as a literary giant. She's won a Pulitzer, an American Book Award, a Christopher Medal, a National Medal of Arts and even a French Legion of Honor. The list of her awards go on and on.

More importantly, people genuinely like and enjoy her books.

One of her early works was Why I Live at the P.O.. In 1990, Steve Dorner was busy creating an e-mail program. He wanted the program to be easy to access and easy for people to use. He remembered reading Why I Live at the P.O. and felt that strum of recognition that we get from reading those meaningful books in our lives. So he named the e-mail program he was working on after her--thus was Eudora born.

That bit of trivia, along with a review of one of Welty's photography books, Country Churchyards, was added to Book Help Web yesterday. The review was written by Tom Barnes, publisher of Travel Help Web.

posted by Book Help Web Editorial Team at 7:03 AM |