Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty stands among the greats of American literature.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909, Welty attended college at Mississippi State College for Women. She earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin and studied advertising at Columbia University Business School.
During the '30s, she was a photographer for the Works Progress Administration and began publishing fiction in 1936. In 1944, she was a book reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.
While she spent most of her life in Mississippi, she also traveled throughout Europe as a Guggeheim Fellow. Her works earned her wide critical acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, three O. Henry Awards, a National Institute of Arts and Letters, a Gold Medal for Fiction Writing, a William Dean Howells Medal, an Edward McDowell Medal, a National Book Award for Fiction, a Christopher Book Award, a National Medal for Literature, an American Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a National Medal of Arts, and a French Legion of Honor.
In 1990 when Steve Dorner created an e-mail program, he remembered reading Welty's story, Why I Live at the P.O. He adapted that to be the e-mail program's motto and then named it after her: Eudora.
Welty died in 2001.
Bibliography
Books |
Collections |
The Robber Bridegroom |
Death of a Traveling Salesman |
Delta Wedding |
Bride of the Innisfallen |
The Ponder Heart |
A Curtain of Green |
Losing Battles |
The Wide Net |
The Optimist's Daughter |
The Golden Apples |
Thirteen Stories |
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Non-Fiction |
Why I Live at P.O. |
One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression |
Stories, Essays, and Memoirs |
The Eye of the Story |
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One Writer's Beginnings |
Photography |
Eudora Welty: Photographs |
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