“That’s something I haven’t fully done before,” he said. Rushdie, who now lives in New York, said he’s looking forward to writing about his beginnings as a novelist as he prepares for the lecture. It’s nice to know it’s there but doesn’t help you do your work.” She talked a great deal about photography.” When he asked her what she thought of her fellow Mississippi writer William Faulkner, she replied: “It’s kind of like there’s a big mountain in the neighborhood. “I thought she might be this little old provincial lady, and instead she was really tall, and she was incredibly cosmopolitan and articulate.
“She was in many ways very surprising,” he recalled. Rushdie said that being asked to speak in Welty’s memory about his own creative origins was “very touching.” He remembers meeting Welty at a small luncheon in London’s Covent Garden after reviewing her novel “ Losing Battles,” which was published in 1970. The following year, her remarks were published in a book called “ One Writer’s Beginnings,” which has sold more than 200,000 copies and earned a permanent place in the canon of books about writers and writing.
#EUDORA WELTY ON WRITING SERIES#
The Welty Lecture series is a tribute to three talks that Welty gave at Harvard University in 1983. Rushdie, an international bestseller who won the Booker Prize for “ Midnight’s Children” and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, will speak at Washington National Cathedral on Oct. Salman Rushdie has been chosen to deliver the first Eudora Welty Lecture, which will carry a $20,000 honorarium. And now, 15 years after her death, she is the inspiration for a major new lecture series in Washington sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Eudora Welty Foundation.
Since publishing her first story collection in 1941, the celebrated writer from Jackson, Miss., has been visible to any reader of American literature. “I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible,” Eudora Welty once wrote, but the world never complied once she started writing.
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