Eudora Welty (b. April 13, 1909, Jackson, Mississippi – d. July 23, 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who wrote about the American South. April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: Coordinates: Country United States State Mississippi County Hinds Founded 1822 Government  - Mayor Frank Melton Area  - City  106. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Coordinates: Country United States State Mississippi County Hinds Founded 1822 Government  - Mayor Frank Melton Area  - City  106. ... Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Historic Southern United States. ...

The gravestone of Eudora Welty in Greenwood Cemetery.

Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi 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), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia University's business school. While at Columbia University, she also was the captain of the women's polo team. Image File history File links Eudorawelty. ... Image File history File links Eudorawelty. ... Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located near downtown Jackson, Mississippi. ... Nickname: Coordinates: Country United States State Mississippi County Hinds Founded 1822 Government  - Mayor Frank Melton Area  - City  106. ... Mississippi University for Women, also known as MUW or sipmly the W is a four-year coeducational public university located in Columbus, Mississippi. ... The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as UW–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, or UW) is a highly selective public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Columbia Business School (part of Columbia University), officially named the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and also known as CBS, was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. ...

During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her all over the state of Mississippi photographing people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are One Time, One Place and Photographs. The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... WPA Graphic The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. ...

Welty's true love was literature, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, Death of a Traveling Salesman, appeared in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. The book immediately established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the legendary short stories A Worn Path, Why I Live at the P.O., and Petrified Man, all of which have been included in many short story anthologies and literature text books through the years. The Canadian writer Alice Munro said that Welty's A Worn Path was perhaps the most perfect short story ever written^{[citation needed]}. The volume also includes such well-regarded stories as "Powerhouse", "Clytie", "A Piece of News", and the title story. In 1992 Welty was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for her lifetime contributions to the American short story. Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims that can be substantiated with evidence. ... This article is in need of attention. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Katherine Anne Porter (15 May 1890 – 18 September 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. ... A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. ... Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw (born 10 July 1931) is an award-winning Canadian short story writer who is widely considered an important writer in that form. ... The Rea Award for the Short Story is an annual award given to an American author chosen for unusually significant contributions to American short story fiction. ...

Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... We dont have an article called The Optimists Daughter Start this article Search for The Optimists Daughter in. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson, at the age of 92, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi. Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located near downtown Jackson, Mississippi. ... Nickname: Coordinates: Country United States State Mississippi County Hinds Founded 1822 Government  - Mayor Frank Melton Area  - City  106. ...

Eudora Welty Books

Short Stories Collections

• A Curtain of Green 1941
• The Robber Bridegroom (novella) 1942
• The Wide Net and Other Stories 1943
• Music From Spain 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 1980
• Moon Lake and Other Stories 1980
• Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples 1988
• A Worn Path

Novels A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. ... The Robber Bridegroom is a Southern fairy tale, set in a Mississippi as unexplored as any woods in the Brothers Grimm. ...

• Delta Wedding 1946
• The Ponder Heart 1954
• The Shoe Bird (juvenile) 1964
• Losing Battles 1970
• The Optimist's Daughter 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

Photography Collections by Welty

• One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album 1971
• Photographs 1989

Trivia

• The e-mail client Eudora was named after her (in reference to her short story Why I Live at the P.O.).^[1]

Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. ...

External links

• CNN Obituary
• BBC Obituary
• Literary Encyclopedia biography
• A Hometown Perspective
• The Mississippi Writers Page
• Eudora Welty Foundation
• Perspectives in American Literature
• PBS
• Eudora Welty links
• Eudora: How a Southern writer came to lend her name to a computer program
• The Paris Review interview
• Footage of Eudora Welty discovered CBC August 26, 2006
• Columbians Ahead of Their Time

References

1. ^ Eudora Background Documents