A real event—the murder of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers on 12 June 1963 in his own driveway—sparked Eudora Welty’s monologue story “Where is the Voice Coming From?” She wrote the story at white heat at one sitting the night Evers was shot down in Jackson, Mississippi, where they both lived. By 1999 other real events were bringing a new generation of readers to the story. The victim’s surviving brother, Myrlie Evers-Williams, had become chairman of the NAACP board of directors and written her memoir; and the Hollywood had issued a film, Ghosts of Mississippi, about why it took thirty years and three juries to convict the white murderer Welty had imagined on paper.