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Eudora Welty

(1909 - 2001)

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)

Collections

   Bride of the Innisfallen (1940)
   A Curtain of Green (1941)
   The Wide Net (1943)
   The Golden Apples (1949)
   Thirteen Stories (1965)
   Selected Stories of Eudora Welty (1977)
   The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
   Why I Live at the P.O. (1995)
   Stories, Essays and Memoirs (1998)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Shoe Bird (1964)
Moon Lake (2011)

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Books containing stories by Eudora Welty

New Orleans Noir 2 (2016)
The Classics
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Julie Smith

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar (2011)
Stories of Work
edited by
Richard Ford

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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

Essential Stories (2005)
V S Pritchett
"He is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language."

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."

The Underground Man (1971)
(Lew Archer, book 16)
Ross MacDonald
"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."