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Eudora Welty


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Eudora Welty was born in 1908 in Jackson, Mississippi, which is still her home. One of America's most distinguished writers, she has published five novels and as many volumes of short stories. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
 

Awards: PEN (1992), NBA (1983), Pulitzer (1973)  see all
 
Novels
   The Robber Bridegroom (1942)
   Delta Wedding (1946)
   The Ponder Heart (1954)
   Losing Battles (1970)
   The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Shoe Bird (1964)
   Moon Lake (2011)
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Books containing stories by Eudora Welty
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New Orleans Noir 2 (2016)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Julie Smith
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

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Awards
1992 PEN/Malamud Award
1983 National Book Award for Fiction : The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty recommends
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Essential Stories (2005)
V S Pritchett
"He is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language."
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Ancestors (1971)
William Maxwell
"William Maxwell's sensitive prose is the good and careful tool of an artist who is always doing exactly what he means to do."
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The Underground Man (1971)
(Lew Archer, book 16)
Ross MacDonald
"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."

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