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A Short Biography of Eudora Welty

Author Name:

Eudora Welty

Born As:

Eudora Alice Welty

Other Names:

Born:

13 Apr 1909

Died:

23 Jul 2001




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Selected Works:

Novels:

The Robber Bridegroom - novella, 1942
Delta Wedding, 1946
The Ponder Heart, 1954
The Shoe Bird - juvenile, 1964
Losing Battles, 1970
The Optimist's Daughter, 1972

Short story collections:

Death of a Traveling Salesman - separate short story, 1936
A Worn Path - separate short story, 1940
A Curtain of Green, 1941
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, 1982
Moon Lake and Other Stories, 1980
Morgana: Two Stories from The Golden Apples, 1988

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
3 Minutes or Less - selected essay, 2001

                          
                          
Honors:

William Dean Howells medal for fiction, The Ponder Heart - 1954 
Pulitzer Prize, The Optimist's Daughter - 1973
Presidential Medal of Freedom - 1980
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from - 1981 Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia
Invited by Harvard University to give the first annual Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization - 1983
National Medal of Arts - 1986 
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters - 1991
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award - 1991
Rea Award for the Short Story - 1992
Charles Frankel Prize, National Endowment for the Humanities - 1993
PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story - 1993
Distinguished Alumni Award, American Association of State Colleges and Universities - 1993
French Légion d’Honneur - 1996
First living author to have her works published in the prestigious Library of America series - 1998.