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'Eudora Alice Welty' (April 13 1909 – July 23 2001) was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the American South.
Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi and 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-Madison, and Columbia University's business school. While at Columbia University, she also was the captain of the women's polo team.
During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her all over the state of Mississippi photographing people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are ''One Time, One Place'' and ''Photographs''.
Welty's true love was literature, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, ''Death of a Traveling Salesman'', appeared in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, ''A Curtain of Green'', in 1941. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary short stories ''A Worn Path'', ''Why I Live at the P.O.'', and ''Petrified Man'', all of which have been included in many short story anthologies and literature text books through the years. The Canadian writer Alice Munro said that Welty's ''A Worn Path'' was perhaps the most perfect short story ever written . The volume also includes such well-regarded stories as "Powerhouse", "Clytie", "A Piece of News", and the title story. In 1992 Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for her lifetime contributions to the American short story. Ms. Welty was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, founded in 1987.
Her novel ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
Welty was mentioned in The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" as being one of only two Pulitzer Prize winners capable of incredible belching.
Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 92, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson.
'Short Stories Collections'
★ ''A Curtain of Green'' 1941
★ ''The Robber Bridegroom'' (novella) 1942
★ ''The Wide Net and Other Stories'' 1943
★ ''Music From Spain'' 1948
★ ''The Golden Apples'' 1949
★ ''Selected Stories'' 1954
★ ''The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories'' 1955
★ ''Thirteen Stories'' 1965
★ ''The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'' 1980
★ ''Moon Lake and Other Stories'' 1980
★ ''Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples'' 1988
★ ''A Worn Path''
'Novels'
★ ''Delta Wedding'' 1946
★ ''The Ponder Heart'' 1954
★ ''The Shoe Bird'' (juvenile) 1964
★ ''Losing Battles'' 1970
★ ''The Optimist's Daughter'' 1972
'Literary Criticism and Non-fiction'
★ ''Three Papers on Fiction'' (criticism) 1962
★ ''The Eye of the Story'' (selected essays and reviews) 1978
★ ''One Writer's Beginnings'' (autobiography) 1983
★ ''The Norton Book of Friendship'' (editor, with Roland A. Sharp) 1991
'Photography Collections by Welty'
★ ''One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album'' 1971
★ ''Photographs'' 1989
'Collected Writings'
★ Ford, Richard and Kreyling, Michael, eds. ''Eudora Welty, Complete Novels'' (Library of America, 1998) ISBN 978-1-88301154-3
★ Ford, Richard and Kreyling, Michael, eds. ''Eudora Welty, Stories, Essays, & Memoirs'' (Library of America, 1998) ISBN 978-1-88301155-0
★ CNN Obituary
★ BBC Obituary
★ Literary Encyclopedia biography
★ A Hometown Perspective
★ The Mississippi Writers Page
★ Eudora Welty Foundation
★ ''Perspectives in American Literature''
★ Eudora Welty: A Concise Biography
★ PBS
★ Eudora Welty links
★ Eudora: How a Southern writer came to lend her name to a computer program
★ ''The Paris Review'' interview
★ Footage of Eudora Welty discovered CBC August 26, 2006
★ Columbians Ahead of Their Time
★ The Eudora Mailing Software Program is named after Eudora Welty.[1]
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN0746730120070907?rpc=44
The gravestone of Eudora Welty in Greenwood Cemetery.
Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi and 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-Madison, and Columbia University's business school. While at Columbia University, she also was the captain of the women's polo team.
During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her all over the state of Mississippi photographing people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are ''One Time, One Place'' and ''Photographs''.
Welty's true love was literature, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, ''Death of a Traveling Salesman'', appeared in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, ''A Curtain of Green'', in 1941. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary short stories ''A Worn Path'', ''Why I Live at the P.O.'', and ''Petrified Man'', all of which have been included in many short story anthologies and literature text books through the years. The Canadian writer Alice Munro said that Welty's ''A Worn Path'' was perhaps the most perfect short story ever written . The volume also includes such well-regarded stories as "Powerhouse", "Clytie", "A Piece of News", and the title story. In 1992 Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for her lifetime contributions to the American short story. Ms. Welty was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, founded in 1987.
Her novel ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
Welty was mentioned in The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Burns" as being one of only two Pulitzer Prize winners capable of incredible belching.
Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 92, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson.
| Contents |
| Books |
| External links |
| In Memorium |
| References |
Books
'Short Stories Collections'
★ ''A Curtain of Green'' 1941
★ ''The Robber Bridegroom'' (novella) 1942
★ ''The Wide Net and Other Stories'' 1943
★ ''Music From Spain'' 1948
★ ''The Golden Apples'' 1949
★ ''Selected Stories'' 1954
★ ''The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories'' 1955
★ ''Thirteen Stories'' 1965
★ ''The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'' 1980
★ ''Moon Lake and Other Stories'' 1980
★ ''Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples'' 1988
★ ''A Worn Path''
'Novels'
★ ''Delta Wedding'' 1946
★ ''The Ponder Heart'' 1954
★ ''The Shoe Bird'' (juvenile) 1964
★ ''Losing Battles'' 1970
★ ''The Optimist's Daughter'' 1972
'Literary Criticism and Non-fiction'
★ ''Three Papers on Fiction'' (criticism) 1962
★ ''The Eye of the Story'' (selected essays and reviews) 1978
★ ''One Writer's Beginnings'' (autobiography) 1983
★ ''The Norton Book of Friendship'' (editor, with Roland A. Sharp) 1991
'Photography Collections by Welty'
★ ''One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album'' 1971
★ ''Photographs'' 1989
'Collected Writings'
★ Ford, Richard and Kreyling, Michael, eds. ''Eudora Welty, Complete Novels'' (Library of America, 1998) ISBN 978-1-88301154-3
★ Ford, Richard and Kreyling, Michael, eds. ''Eudora Welty, Stories, Essays, & Memoirs'' (Library of America, 1998) ISBN 978-1-88301155-0
External links
★ CNN Obituary
★ BBC Obituary
★ Literary Encyclopedia biography
★ A Hometown Perspective
★ The Mississippi Writers Page
★ Eudora Welty Foundation
★ ''Perspectives in American Literature''
★ Eudora Welty: A Concise Biography
★ PBS
★ Eudora Welty links
★ Eudora: How a Southern writer came to lend her name to a computer program
★ ''The Paris Review'' interview
★ Footage of Eudora Welty discovered CBC August 26, 2006
★ Columbians Ahead of Their Time
In Memorium
★ The Eudora Mailing Software Program is named after Eudora Welty.[1]
References
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN0746730120070907?rpc=44
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