Introductory Remarks for the Inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture: Washington National Cathedral, October 20, 2016

Natasha Trethewey introduced the inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture that was delivered by Salman Rushdie, October 20, 2016, at the Washington National Cathedral. The Lecture series created by the Eudora Welty Foundation invites living writers to consider their beginnings in the style of Eudora Welty's 1983 William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University that she revised for her memoir One Writer's Beginnings (1984). Trethewey speaks of the confluence of Welty, Rushdie, herself, and the audience from varied times and places to consider Heraclitus's axiom "Geography is fate."