|  Dr. Suzanne Marrs, professor of English and Welty Foundation Scholar in Residence at Millsaps College, was recently named the non-fiction winner of the Mississippi Library Association’s 2006 Mississippi Authors Awards.
Marrs was recognized by the MLA for her book “Eudora Welty: A Biography,” which was also named an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review, one of the Best of 2005 in The Chicago Tribune and one of Amazon.com’s top ten biographies of 2005. She received the non-fiction award at the MLA Annual Conference in November.
Marrs has received many other awards, including the Phoenix Award for Distinguished Welty Scholarship from the Eudora Welty Society and the Distinguished Professor Award from Millsaps College. She has taught at Millsaps since 1988.
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