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Eudora Welty

Jackson, Mississippi
(1909–2001)

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Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi and she lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her home has been preserved. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (now called Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University. During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her all over the state of Mississippi taking photographs of people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are One Time, One Place, and Photographs.


But Welty's true love was language, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared in 1936 and in 1941 she published her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green. Her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.


The Canadian writer, Alice Munro, has said that Welty's "A Worn Path" is perhaps the most perfect short story ever written.


Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson. The e-mail client Eudora was named after her (in reference to her short story "Why I Live at the P.O.").
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Eudora Welty works
Eudora Welty (PAL): List of works, bibliography, photographs
Why I Live at the P.O."
Place in Fiction
A Worn Path
Eudora Welty Reviews Charlotte's Web
Eudora Welty Reviews J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories
Eudora Welty Reviews V. S. Pritchett's Selected Stories
The Optimist's Daughter
Delta Wedding
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart, PBS
Eudora Welty works
Eudora Welty (PAL): List of works, bibliography, photographs
Why I Live at the P.O."
Place in Fiction
A Worn Path
Eudora Welty Reviews Charlotte's Web
Eudora Welty Reviews J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories
Eudora Welty Reviews V. S. Pritchett's Selected Stories
The Optimist's Daughter
Delta Wedding
The Ponder Heart
The Ponder Heart, PBS
Lily Daw and the Three Ladies
Voices of Mississippi
1941 A Curtain of Green (short stories). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Doran.
1942 The Robber Bridegroom (short novel). Doubleday Doran.
1943 The Wide Net and Other Stories (short stories). New York: Harcourt Brace.
1946 Delta Wedding (novel). Harcourt Brace.
1948 Music from Spain (short story published in separate binding; limited edition). Greenville, MS: Levee Press. (This story became a major section of The Golden Apples, published the following year.)
1949 The Golden Apples (cycle of related stories). Harcourt Brace.
1954 Selected Stories of Eudora Welty. New York: Modern Library.
1954 The Ponder Heart (short novel). Harcourt Brace.
1955 The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories. Harcourt Brace.
1957 Place in Fiction (essay; limited edition). New York: House of Books.
1964 The Shoe Bird (children's story). Harcourt Brace & World.
1965 Thirteen Stories, ed. Ruth Vande Kieft. Harcourt Brace & World.
1970 Losing Battles (novel). New York: Random House.
1971 One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, A Snapshot Album (photographsby Welty with a fine introduction by her). Random House.
1972 The Optimist's Daughter (novel). Random House.
1978 The Eye of the Story (essays). Random House.
1984 One Writer's Beginnings (autobiography). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1984 Conversationswith Eudora Welty, ed. Peggy Prenshaw (collected interviews). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
1989 Photographs, with a foreword by Reynolds Price. University Press of Mississippi.
1991 Norton Book of Friendship, ed. Ronald A. Sharp and Eudora Welty. Norton.
1994 A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews, ed. Pearl Amelia McHaney. University Press of Mississippi.
1995 More Conversations with Eudora Welty, ed. Peggy Prenshaw. University Press of Mississippi.
1999 Welty: Collected Novels. Library of Congress.
1999 Welty: Collected Essays and Memoirs. Library of Congress.
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