Eudora welty brief biography
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The Quiet Greatness of Eudora Welty
And while she sat with me for one of her last interviews, Welty seemed acutely aware that she had been young once—and slightly surprised, like so many people touched by advancing age, that the seasons had worked their will upon her so quickly.
Physical decline had kept Welty from the prized camellias planted out back, and they were now forced to fend for themselves. “The garden is gone. It makes me ill to look at it,” she told me in her signature Southern drawl. “But I’m not complaining. It’s just the state of things.”
Welty’s comment about the sad state of her yard was just a passing remark, and yet it appeared to point toward the center of her artistic vision, which seemed keenly alert to the way that time pressed, like a front of weather, on every living thing.
What Welty once wrote of E. B. White’s work could just as easily describe her literary ideal: “The transitory more and more becomes one with the beautiful.” Her three avocations—gard
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Biography of Eudora Welty, American Short-Story Writer
Eudora Welty (April 13, – July 23, ) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, best known for her realistic portrayal of the South. Her most acclaimed work is the novel The Optimist’s Daughter, which won her a Pulitzer Prize in , as well as the short stories “Life at the P.O.” and “A Worn Path.”
Fast Facts: Eudora Welty
- Full Name: Eudora Alice Welty
- Known For: American writer known for her short stories and novels set in the South
- Born: April 13, in Jackson, Mississippi
- Parents: Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty
- Died: July 23, in Jackson, Mississippi
- Education: Mississippi State College for Women, University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University
- Selected Works: A Curtain of Green (), The Golden Apples (), The Optimist’s Daughter (), One Writer’s Beginnings ()
- Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship (), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (), American Academy of Arts and
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Eudora Welty
American writer and photographer (–)
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, – July 23, ) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the pris Prize in Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published bygd the Library of amerika. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
Biography
[edit]Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, , the daughter of Christian Webb Welty (–) and Mary Chestina (Andrews) Welty (–). She grew up with younger brothers Edward Jefferson and Walter Andrews.[1] Her mother was a schoolteacher. Her family were members of the Methodist church.[2] Her childhood home is still standing and was listed on the National Registe