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 Welty
Author details
- Born:
- Jan. 6, 1909
- Died:
- Jan. 6, 2001
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Books by Eudora Welty
The United States in Literature
by James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, and 200 others
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Jorge Luis Borges, and 32 others
