The Folger and the Eudora Welty Foundation join together to welcome award-winning novelist Amor Towles as he delivers the 2025 Eudora Welty Lecture. Staged at Washington DC’s famed Folger Shakespeare Library returning for the first time in five years, Amor will present his speech inspired by the writing and life of famed author Eudora Welty.
There will be a book signing after the lecture.
The lecture is produced by the Eudora Welty Foundation in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
About Amor Towles
Amor Towles
Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two. The four books have collectively sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
About the Eudora Welty Foundation
The Eudora Welty Foundation was established to assist the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to achieve its goals of celebrating the legacy of Eudora Welty, enhancing appreciation of her work, and encouraging reading and the efforts of young writers. The Foundation’s broad mission is to fund educational and research activities and to develop programs that will enhance Eudora Welty’s legacy and ensure that her work continues to be recognized as among the greatest in American literature. To visitors from across America and around the world, the Welty Home provides a literary experience to enhance the understanding of Welty’s life and work. Welty’s fiction affirms that the imagination can be a powerful force to combat suffering, both physical and spiritual. Programming emphasizes Welty’s striking intellect and creative powers, her devotion to the humanities, the place of literature in our lives, and the role of the writer in our society. Learn more
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The 2024 Eudora Welty Lecture
