Eudora Welty's bedroom desk

Eudora Welty's parents built this Tudor Revival house in Jackson in 1925. She lived here from age sixteen until her death in 2001.

She wrote at a desk in her upstairs bedroom, pinning drafts together with straight pins, and the garden her mother planted became a subject of her work.

Welty left the house to the state of Mississippi. It is kept as she left it, down to the books stacked in every room.

Staying put for seventy-six years is its own kind of story.