The email program Eudora was created by Steve Dormer at the University of Illinois in the 1987-88. (U of I is also the place they developed
Mosaic. Must be all the
corn pollen around
Champaign-Urbana.
Most interestingly, the program is named for Eudora Welty, the brilliant southern author who was born in 1909 and died in 2001. As Dorner has recounted the story in numerous articles about the award-winning program, he had been assigned to read Welty's acclaimed short story "Why I Live at the P.O." in a college class. It is about a woman who chooses to leave her family home and live at the Post Office where she works.