One Writer's Beginnings [1] is a collection of autobiographical essays by Eudora Welty.

Well received by both critics and fans alike, One Writer's Beginnings was on The New York Times bestseller list for almost a year.

[2] In the essays, Ms. Welty explains the inescapable bond between her childhood in Mississippi and her later career as a writer.

The book has been praised as revealing "the confluence of past and present as the design of Welty's life and art by making such intersection the structural principle behind her life story as an artist.

The lectures were published in book form by Harvard University Press in 1984.