American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909–2001)
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty in 1962
Born
Eudora Alice Welty
(1909-04-13)April 13, 1909
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
July 23, 2001(2001-07-23) (aged 92)
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Education
Mississippi University for Women University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA) Columbia University (MA)
Occupation(s)
Author, photographer
Awards
Edward MacDowell Medal 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 The Optimist's Daughter
National Book Award for Fiction 1983 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her...
The EudoraWelty House & Garden, at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, was the home of author EudoraWelty for nearly 80 years. It was built...
The Collected Stories of EudoraWelty is a collection of short stories by EudoraWelty, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1980. Its first paperback...
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Welty, Eudora (1980). The Collected Stories of EudoraWelty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-15-618921-7. Retrieved September 9, 2011. Eudora Welty...
"A Worn Path" by EudoraWelty is a short story about an elderly African American woman who undertakes a familiar journey on a road in a rural area to acquire...
Green was the first collection of short stories written by EudoraWelty. In these stories, Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its...
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Delta Wedding is a 1946 Southern fiction novel by EudoraWelty. Set in 1923, the novel tells of the experiences of the Fairchild family in a domestic drama-filled...
language." Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and EudoraWelty, among others. The oldest of four children, she was born in Minneapolis...
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972) The Optimist's Daughter by EudoraWelty (1973) No award given (1974) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975)...
Mississippi's past include William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, EudoraWelty and Shelby Foote, while modern writers include John Grisham, Natasha...
forth for consideration to the Pulitzer board were: Losing Battles by EudoraWelty; Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow; and The Wheel of Love by Joyce...
was admired by his peers—among them the aforementioned Walker Percy, EudoraWelty, and his literary hero William Faulkner, who once told a University of...
Spanish music, see Music of Spain. "Music from Spain" is a short story by EudoraWelty, published in 1948 as a limited edition monograph by the Levee Press...
Faulkner wrote a letter of encouragement to a young Mississippi writer, EudoraWelty. According to critic and translator Valerie Miles, Faulkner's influence...
of crime fiction to become "a major American novelist" while author EudoraWelty was a fan of the series and carried on a lengthy correspondence with...
making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after EudoraWelty. Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of...
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