Warren Perry, researcher at NPG, discusses a portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Nungester Wolfe. Eudora Welty was born 100 years ago this past April 13 and she died on July 23, 2001. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and she died in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty attended the Mississippi University for Women (also called the "W") from 1925 through 1927 and then transferred to the University of Wisconsin, from which she graduated in 1929. She enjoyed great acclaim as a writer, and her photography from her service in the Works Progress Administration has been exhibited in many museums. Her short stories are widely anthologized, while one of her novels, The Optimist's Daughter, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. An early novel of Welty's, The Robber Bridegroom (1941), was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1976 and earned a 1977 Tony Award for Best Actor (Barry Bostwick) and eight Drama Desk awards. Recorded at NPG, April 30, 2009. Image info: Eudora Welty / Mildred Nungester Wolfe, 1988 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution