Eudora Welty

Died in 2001

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909, to a father who had joined an insurance company and became its head, and a mother who had been a schoolteacher. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she studied advertising at Columbia, then returned to Jackson in 1931, the year her father died. She lived in the family house from 1925 until her death. She published five novels and four collections, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for a late novel, became in 1998 the first living writer published by the Library of America, and died in Jackson in 2001, aged ninety-two.

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Short storiesA Curtain of GreenEudora Welty · 1941Literature