Although she traveled extensively and lived in various places during her extraordinary literary career, short story writer and novelist Eudora Welty seemed always to return to Jackson, Mississippi, the beloved hometown where she spent most of her adult life and where she undoubtedly drew inspiration for her pitch-perfect regional fiction.

Born into a happy, close-knit family on April 13, 1909, Welty attended Mississippi State College, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, then moved to New York in 1930 to attend Columbia's business school for advertising. A year later, her father's death brought her home. She worked locally in radio, wrote articles for a newspaper, and served as a publicity agent for the WPA throughout rural areas of the state. (A gifted photographer, Welty shot a number of remarkable candids at this time which were later published in the 1978 collection One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression.) A few of her stories appeared in small literary magazines in the late 1930s, but it was not until the following decade that her career took off. Her first short fiction collection, A Curtain of Green, and a debut novella, The Robber Bridegroom, were published respectively in 1941 and 1942.

Although Welty has penned some wonderful full-length novels (The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter), it is her short stories -- peopled with peculiar, colorful eccentrics who maintain an undeniable charm in spite of their grotesquerie -- that have cemented her reputation as one of our finest regional writers. During her long literary career she accrued dozens of honors, including multiple O. Henry Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, France's Legion of Honor, and dozens of honorary degrees. On July, 23, 2001, she died peacefully in her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She was 92 years old.

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One Writer's Beginnings
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Essential Welty: Powerhouse and Petrified Man
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Are We There Yet?
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The Optimist's Daughter (Abridged)
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Title: Una coltre di verde, Author: Eudora Welty
Title: Concluding, Author: Henry Green
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Title: Cuentos completos, Author: Eudora Welty
Title: Delta Wedding / The Ponder Heart, Author: Eudora Welty
Title: Der Räuberbräutigam, Author: Eudora Welty
Title: The Great Big Doorstep: A Novel, Author: E. P. O'Donnell
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Title: Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949, Author: Eudora Welty
Title: The Bride of the Innisfallen: And Other Stories, Author: Eudora Welty
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The Ponder Heart
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Delta Wedding
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