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Eudora Welty (1909–2001)

Author of The Optimist's Daughter

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Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and at the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 1930 to study advertising at the Columbia University business school. After her father's death, she moved back to Jackson in 1931. She held various jobs on local newspapers and at a radio station before becoming a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. Travelling through the state of Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the great depression and resulted in a series of photographs, which were exhibited in a one-women show in New York in 1936 and were eventually published as One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression in 1971. She stopped working for the WPA in 1936. Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Optimist's Daughter… (more)
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Works by Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter 2,563 copies, 91 reviews
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 2,366 copies, 15 reviews
One Writer's Beginnings 1,688 copies, 24 reviews
Delta Wedding 970 copies, 22 reviews
Losing Battles 679 copies, 10 reviews
The Ponder Heart 572 copies, 12 reviews
The Robber Bridegroom 490 copies, 15 reviews
Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The… 481 copies, 3 reviews
The Golden Apples 428 copies, 3 reviews
Thirteen Stories 411 copies, 4 reviews
Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir 385 copies, 2 reviews
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories 365 copies, 6 reviews
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty 291 copies, 1 review
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews 266 copies, 1 review
On Writing (Modern Library) 200 copies, 1 review
Eudora Welty Photographs 151 copies, 1 review
Why I Live at the P.O. 130 copies, 5 reviews
What There Is to Say We Have Said 125 copies, 2 reviews
Bride Of Innisfallen & Other Stories: And Other Stories 116 copies, 1 review
The Wide Net And Other Stories 103 copies
The Norton Book of Friendship 92 copies
Conversations with Eudora Welty 88 copies
One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression 74 copies
Country Churchyards 48 copies, 1 review
The Shoe Bird 37 copies, 1 review
The Golden Apples / Losing Battles / The Ponder Heart 32 copies
A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews 31 copies
Some Notes on River Country 30 copies
Moon Lake [short story] 29 copies
A Worn Path 21 copies, 2 reviews
Essential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and… 17 copies
On William Faulkner 16 copies, 2 reviews
William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest 16 copies, 1 review
Morgana: Two Stories from "the Golden Apples" 15 copies
Moon Lake and Other Stories 15 copies, 1 review
Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties 14 copies
Becoming a Writer, On Becoming a Novelist, One Writer's Beginnings 14 copies
Eudora Welty Reads 10 copies
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoirs (LOA #102): A Curtain of Green /… 9 copies
Early Escapades 7 copies, 1 review
Where is the Voice Coming From? [short story] 7 copies
Clytie 6 copies, 4 reviews
Occasions: Selected Writings 5 copies
Petrified Man 5 copies
Lily Daw and the Three Ladies (Author) 3 copies
Eudora Welty Reads "Why I Live at the P.O." and Others/Audio Cassette… 3 copies
Eudora Welty, Other Places 3 copies
Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace 3 copies
RARE THE COLLECTED STORIES OF Eudora Welty - 1st/1st HCDJ 1980- Harcourt -… 3 copies
On Short Stories 3 copies
In black and white : photographs of the 30's and 40's 3 copies
As Maçãs Douradas (Portuguese Edition) 2 copies
Atlantic Monthly 2 copies
Acrobats in a Park. 2 copies
Vom Wagnis, die Welt in Worte zu fassen (edition fünf 8) (German Edition) 2 copies, 1 review
Os Ventos e Outros Contos (Portuguese Edition) 2 copies
Bye-Bye, Brevoort: A One-Act Play 2 copies
Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart (2 Works) 2 copies
Fictions 2 copies
Os Melhores Contos 2 copies
The Faulkner Investigation 2 copies
Eudora Welty Reads: Why I Live at the P.O. Powerhouse, Petrified Man and… 2 copies
The Short Stories of Eudora Welty 2 copies
Powerhouse 2 copies
L'homme petrifie : nouvelles 2 copies
Death of a Traveling Salesman 2 copies
Rare Eudora Welty: The Collected Stories BOMC, VG HC/DJ 2 copies
A Writer's Life 1 copy
Wide Net, the 1 copy
Złote jabłka 1 copy
Delta Wdding 1 copy
Selected Stories Of Eudora Welty, Containing All Of "A Curtain Of Green… 1 copy
OS MEUS PRIMEIROS PASSOS COMO ESCRITORA 1 copy
Selected Stories. Introd. by Katherine Anne Porter 1 copy
Garden Tales - Classic Stories From Favorite Writers 1 copy
To megali dichty kai alles istories / Το μεγάλο δίχτυ και… 1 copy
The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume E 1 copy
Welty: An Exhibition at the Mississippi State Historical Museum 1 copy
The Little Store 1 copy
The Jackson Cookbook 1 copy
The Demonstrators [short story] 1 copy
June Recital: Stories of Eudora Welty 1 copy
On William Hollingsworth, Jr. 1 copy
Ladies in Spring (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story -… 1 copy
Kella, the Outcast Indian Maiden 1 copy
A Visit of Charity 1 copy
Three Papers on Fiction 1 copy
The Essential Welty 1 copy
Four Photographs 1 copy
Losing battles Book Club edition (Authors) Welty, Eudora (2002) published… 1 copy
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir Vol 2 1 copy
Place in Fiction 1 copy
Welty, Eudora Archive 1 copy
Oncle daniel, le genereux (FICTION (A)) 1 copy
[No title] 1 copy
Aptal İncir Ağacı 1 copy
Eudora Welty-member choice 1 copy
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To the Lighthouse (Introduction, some editions) 16,949 copies, 256 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Contributor) 1,533 copies, 10 reviews
Death of a Salesman [critical edition] (Contributor) 1,240 copies, 8 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 754 copies, 4 reviews
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Contributor) 722 copies, 3 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 651 copies, 3 reviews
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Contributor) 523 copies, 6 reviews
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (Contributor) 501 copies, 4 reviews
Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 482 copies, 2 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (Contributor) 449 copies, 4 reviews
Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 400 copies, 7 reviews
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories… (Introduction; Contributor) 372 copies, 3 reviews
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (Contributor) 362 copies, 3 reviews
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 361 copies, 1 review
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (Contributor) 358 copies, 7 reviews
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane… (Contributor) 355 copies, 18 reviews
The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributor) 317 copies, 2 reviews
The Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 286 copies, 2 reviews
A Treasury of Short Stories (Contributor) 286 copies
The Treasury of American Short Stories (Contributor) 262 copies, 1 review
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Contributor) 261 copies, 3 reviews
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Cover artist) 207 copies, 9 reviews
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 202 copies, 1 review
We Are the Stories We Tell (Contributor) 190 copies, 1 review
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor) 181 copies, 1 review
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (Contributor) 144 copies, 2 reviews
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (Contributor) 130 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Contributor) 129 copies, 4 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributor) 128 copies, 1 review
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by… (Contributor) 119 copies, 3 reviews
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (Contributor) 118 copies, 3 reviews
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (Contributor) 114 copies
Granta 115: The F Word (Contributor) 113 copies
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (Contributor) 109 copies, 1 review
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (Contributor) 96 copies
The Granta Book of the American Long Story (Contributor) 94 copies
American Short Stories (Contributor, some editions) 90 copies
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Contributor) 88 copies
Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributor) 88 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the… (Contributor) 77 copies
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (Contributor, some editions) 74 copies
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (Contributor) 51 copies
Art of Fiction (Contributor) 50 copies
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 (Contributor) 47 copies
Masters of the Modern Short Story (Contributor) 44 copies
Southern Dogs and Their People (Contributor) 38 copies
New Orleans Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 37 copies, 3 reviews
The Signet Book of American Essays (Contributor) 36 copies
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (Contributor) 32 copies, 1 review
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributor) 32 copies
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (Contributor) 30 copies
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (Contributor) 28 copies
American short stories, 1820 to the present (Contributor) 26 copies
The Seas of God: Great Stories of the Human Spirit (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
Studies in Fiction (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the… (Contributor) 22 copies, 5 reviews
The Robber Bridegroom 17 copies
Modern American Short Stories (Contributor) 15 copies
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (Contributor) 14 copies
Story to Anti-Story (Contributor) 13 copies
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (Contributor) 13 copies
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Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review
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31 Stories (Contributor) 12 copies, 2 reviews
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Inward Journey (Contributor) 11 copies
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The Penguin New Writing No. 36 (Contributor) 11 copies
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (Contributor) 10 copies
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (Contributor) 8 copies, 1 review
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1941 (Contributor) 7 copies
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (Contributor) 7 copies
Open Secrets 7 copies
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RDCBLP v080 The Client | The Stolen Car | A Worn Path 6 copies
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Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards… (Contributor) 3 copies
The College Short Story Reader (Contributor) 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (Contributor) 2 copies
Whole Pieces (Contributor) 1 copy
15 Great Stories of Today (Contributor) 1 copy
Modern Short Stories (Contributor) 1 copy
Stories of Sudden Truth (Contributor) 1 copy
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (Contributor) 1 copy
The Avon Annual 1945: 18 Great Modern Stories (Contributor) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Legal name
Welty, Eudora Alice
Other names
Date of birth
1909-04-13
Date of death
2001-07-23
Burial location
Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Place of death
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Cause of death
Places of residence
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Education
Mississippi State College for Women (Mississippi University for Women)
University of Wisconsin (BA | 1929)
Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1930-31)
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
photographer
publicity agent
reporter
Relationships
Porter, Katherine Anne (friend)
Aswell, Mary Louise (friend|correspondent)
Agents
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1952])
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Works Progress Administration
The New York Times
Harvard University (lecturer)
Awards and honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
National Medal of Arts (1986)
National Book Foundation Medal (1991)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (1991)
Rea Award for the Short Story (1992)
Short biography
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