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Eudora Welty’s Life in the South Eudora Welty was born to a “Yankee” father and a mother on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. At the age of 27, she started her writing career and published many short stories. One of her most well-known short stories is “A Worn Path,” which she wrote in 1940. Many factors of Eudora’s life on the Natchez influenced this story, such as the story’s setting and her choosing her character’s name. The setting of “A Worn Path” began in rural southern Mississippi along the Natchez Trail. Eudora included the Natchez Trail in many of her stories during her life in Mississippi. Author Benfey Christopher in “The Local and Unlocal Art of Eudora Welty. A Sense of Place” states that Eudora “likes well-traveled roads.” Benfey also quotes Eudora on well-worn paths