Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m
The Bettye Jolly Lecture returns to the Welty lawn for the first time since 2020! Acclaimed Southern author Ron Rash will speak outdoors in the Camellia Room garden followed by a reception in the Eudora Welty House & Garden Visitor Center. This event is free and open to the public, so bring a friend.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University and has appeared as a special guest of the #WeltyatHome virtual bookclub. Thanks to the Eudora Welty Foundation for sponsoring this special event.
