Eudora Welty
Novelist, Author
1909 – 2001
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Who was Eudora Welty?
Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, is a National Historic Landmark and open to the public as a museum.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1909
Jackson - Also known as
- Eudora Alice Welty
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Mississippi University for Women
- Lived in
- Jackson
- Mississippi
- Died
- Jul 23, 2001
Jackson
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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