Eudora Welty






Eudora Welty

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born
April 13, 1909

died
July 23, 2001

gender
female

place of birth
Jackson, Mississippi, The United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her book The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America.

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 Business School. While at Columbia University, where she was the captain of the ...more




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The Optimist's Daughter: A Nov... The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 3.46 — 933 ratings — published 1972
18 editions
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The Collected Stories of Eudor... The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 4.33 — 587 ratings — published 1980
9 editions
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One Writer's Beginnings One Writer's Beginnings
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 3.99 — 385 ratings — published 1984
13 editions
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Delta Wedding Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 3.71 — 354 ratings — published 1946
8 editions
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Why I Live at the P.O. Why I Live at the P.O.
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 4.41 — 196 ratings — published 1995
2 editions
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The Golden Apples The Golden Apples
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 4.02 — 177 ratings — published 1949
4 editions
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The Ponder Heart The Ponder Heart
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 3.57 — 176 ratings — published 1954
3 editions
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Thirteen Stories Thirteen Stories
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 4.04 — 153 ratings — published 1965
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The Robber Bridegroom The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 3.72 — 156 ratings — published 1942
3 editions
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A Curtain of Green: and Other... A Curtain of Green: and Other Stories
by Eudora Welty
avg rating 4.28 — 112 ratings — published 1941
3 editions
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"Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading."
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"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them. . ."
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"Write about what you don't know about what you know. "
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