When: Thursday, November 6
Where: Museum of the City of New York; 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NYC
What time: 4 p.m.

Event information: Reservations will be required to attend the symposium and exhibition opening. Tickets are $15 for general public; $10 for members of the Museum, PEN American Center, or Eudora Welty Foundation.

Tickets may be purchased by calling 212-534-1672, ext. 3395 or by visiting www.mcny.org

A star-studded program addressing the life and work of Southern literary icon Eudora Welty will take place at the Museum of the City of New York on Thursday, November 6, at 4:00 p.m. The symposium panel will discuss Welty’s fiction and photographs and their personal friendship with her. The symposium will be followed by a reception to open an exhibition of Welty’s Depression-era photographs

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford; distinguished writer and Duke University professor Reynolds Price; journalist and longtime public television producer and host Robert MacNeil; Eudora Welty biographer and Millsaps College’s Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence Suzanne Marrs, moderator.

Organized in conjunction with the Eudora Welty Foundation, the symposium will be followed by a reception and the opening of Eudora Welty in New York: Photographs, 1932—1936, an exhibition of some 50 photographs taken by Welty during the Depression. The photographs were first shown in 1936 at the then Photographic Galleries on Madison Avenue, and most of the images in the Museum’s exhibition are Welty’s original prints.

The exhibition and the symposium are organized in celebration of the centennial of Welty’s birth. Although she made her home in Mississippi after 1931 until her death in 2001, Welty was drawn to New York City and had many formative experiences here, including working at the New York Times Book Review and seeing her own works, The Ponder Heart and The Robber Bridegroom, performed on the Broadway stage.