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Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an award-winning American author
Author

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 and photographer
Photographer

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 who wrote about the American South
Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States....
.

y was born in Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
, 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
Mississippi University for Women

Mississippi University for Women, also known as MUW or simply the "W" is a four-year coeducational public university located in Columbus, Mississippi, Mississippi....
), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in New York, New York. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students....
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Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an award-winning American author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and photographer
Photographer

A photographer is a person who takes a photograph using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living whilst an amateur photographer does not earn a living and typically takes photographs for pleasure and to record an event, place or person for future enjoyment....
 who wrote about the American South
Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States....
.

Biography

Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
, 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
Mississippi University for Women

Mississippi University for Women, also known as MUW or simply the "W" is a four-year coeducational public university located in Columbus, Mississippi, Mississippi....
), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in New York, New York. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students....
. While at Columbia University, where she was the captain of the women's polo team, Welty was a regular at Romany Marie
Romany Marie

Marie Marchand , known as Romany Marie, was a Greenwich Village doyenne and Restaurant who played a key role in bohemianism from the early 1900s through the late 1950s in New York City's Manhattan....
's café in 1930.

Welty died of pneumonia
Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an Inflammation illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolus inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid ....
 in Jackson, at the age of 92, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi

Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Still in use, it was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821....
.

Photography

During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting almost every locality in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations....
, a job that sent her around Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
 photographing people from all economic and social classes
Social class

Social class refers to the hierarchy distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Usually most societies have some notion of social class , but concretely defined social classes are not found in every known type of human societies....
. Collections of her photographs are One Time, One Place and Photographs.

Writing career

Welty gave up photography to focus on her writing. Her first short story
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared in 1936
1936 in literature

The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is known for her penetrating insight; her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil....
, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green
A Curtain of Green

A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic view of the racial relations that existed at the time....
, in 1941
1941 in literature

The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary and oft-anthologized stories "Why I Live at the P.O.," "Petrified Man," and "A Worn Path." Her novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
, The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter

The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina....
, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life....
 in 1973
1973 in literature

The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books....
. In 1992, Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story
Rea Award for the Short Story

The Rea Award for the Short Story is an annual award given to a living United States or Canada author chosen for unusually significant contributions to short story fiction....
 for her lifetime contributions to the American short story, and was a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Fellowship of Southern Writers

The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literature organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern United States writers and other literary luminaries....
, founded in 1987. In her later life, she lived near Belhaven College
Belhaven College

Belhaven College is a college in Jackson, Mississippi that was founded by the Presbyterian Church in the United States but that is independently run by a Board of Trustees....
, where, despite her fame, she was still a common sight among the people of her hometown.

Short story collections

  • "Death of a Traveling Salesman" (separate short story), 1936
  • "A Worn Path" (separate short story), 1940
  • A Curtain of Green
    A Curtain of Green

    A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic view of the racial relations that existed at the time....
    , 1941
  • The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943
  • Music from Spain
    Music from Spain

    "Music from Spain" is a short story by Eudora Welty, published in 1948 as a limited edition monograph by the Levee Press in Greenville, Mississippi, and as a part of the novel The Golden Apples in 1949....
    , 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
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, is, as the name suggests, a collection of stories by Eudora Welty. It was published by Harvest Publishing in 1982 and demonstrates the author's ability to write from the point of view of diverse characters ranging from Aaron Burr to a deaf black servant boy, a traveling salesmen, eccentric Southern mat...
    , 1982
  • Moon Lake and Other Stories, 1980
  • Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples, 1988


Novels

  • The Robber Bridegroom
    The Robber Bridegroom

    The Robber Bridegroom is a 1942 novella by Eudora Welty.The story, inspired by and loosely based on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale The Robber Bridegroom , is a American South folk tale set in Mississippi....
     (novella), 1942
  • Delta Wedding, 1946
  • The Ponder Heart, 1954
  • The Shoe Bird (juvenile), 1964
  • Losing Battles, 1970
  • The Optimist's Daughter
    The Optimist's Daughter

    The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina....
    , 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
  • 3 Minutes or Less (selected essay), 2001


Commemoration

The name given to the internet email program Eudora
Eudora (e-mail client)

Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supports several Personal Digital Assistant computing platforms, including Apple Newton and the Palm OS....
, developed by Steve Dorner
Steve Dorner

Steve Dorner is an US software engineer. He developed the Eudora e-mail client in 1988 as a part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
 in 1990, was inspired by Welty's story "Why I Live at the P.O."

See also

  • Eudora Welty House
    Eudora Welty House

    The Eudora Welty House in Jackson, Mississippi was the home of author Eudora Welty. It was built by her parents in 1925, declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004 and opened to the public as a museum in 2006....


External links

  • * owned by the University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections.
  • Gwin, Minrose. "" March 11, 2008. Southern Spaces