NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: We have news of a highly acclaimed writer from Mississippi who has died. Eudora Welty was 92 years old. She won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Ponder Heart and "The Optimist's Daughter." She was a wise, meticulous writer whose loving depictions of small-town Mississippi brought her international acclaim. She was acclaimed for heart-wrenching photographs of poverty in Depression Era Mississippi. She died at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. A spokesman said she had been battling pneumonia. Pulitzer Prize-winning author dead at 92. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Writer Eudora Welty Dead at 92