Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, shown in this April 8, 1992 photo, died Monday,July 23,2001. Welty, the wise, meticulous writer whose loving depictions of small-town Mississippi brought her international acclaim, died at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Miss. She had been battling pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was 92. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury)