Statue grouping of three prominent Mississippians in Jackson, the capital city of the state.
They are Eudora Welty (foreground) a short-story writer and novelist who richly described life in the American South; Richard Wright (right), an author of novels and stories about the plight of fellow African Americans during the early 20th Century; and William Faulkner (left), whose idiosyncatic novels about the fictional Yoknapatawpha County -- based on the Lafayette County of his youth -- depicted the rich tapestry and unforgettable characters of the Old South of his youth.