Suzanne Marrs

Professor Emerita of English at Millsaps College where she taught for twenty-seven years, Suzanne Marrs received the 1998 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Welty Scholarship from the Eudora Welty Society and the 2004 Distinguished Professor Award from Millsaps; she was Mississippi’s Humanities Scholar of the Year in 2009. Marrs is the author of Eudora Welty, A Biography, and of One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty as well as being the editor of What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell and the co-editor (along with Harriet Pollack) of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade. Marrs’s most recent publication is Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald (July 2015), which she co-edited with Tom Nolan.

Though she has now retired from the faculty of Millsaps College, Marrs continues to serve as Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Eudora Welty House and has a number of projects in the offing.