Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
Auteur van The Optimist's Daughter
Over de Auteur
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and at the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 1930 to study advertising at the Columbia University business school. After her toon meer father's death, she moved back to Jackson in 1931. She held various jobs on local newspapers and at a radio station before becoming a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. Travelling through the state of Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the great depression and resulted in a series of photographs, which were exhibited in a one-women show in New York in 1936 and were eventually published as One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression in 1971. She stopped working for the WPA in 1936. Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Eudora Welty
Werken van Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The… (1998) 488 exemplaren
Essential Welty CD: Why I Live at the P.O., A Memory, Powerhouse and Petrified Man (2006) 18 exemplaren
Becoming a Writer, On Becoming a Novelist, One Writer's Beginnings (1993) — Medewerker — 15 exemplaren
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoirs (LOA #102): A Curtain of Green / The Wide Net / The Golden Apples / The Bride… 10 exemplaren
Where is the Voice Coming From? [short story] 7 exemplaren
Clytie 6 exemplaren
On Short Stories 3 exemplaren
Atlantic Monthly 2 exemplaren
Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart (2 Works) 2 exemplaren
Powerhouse 2 exemplaren
Bye-Bye, Brevoort: A One-Act Play 2 exemplaren
Eudora Welty Reads: Why I Live at the P.O. Powerhouse, Petrified Man and Other of Her Stories/Audio Cassettes (1992) 2 exemplaren
Death of a Traveling Salesman 2 exemplaren
Os Melhores Contos 2 exemplaren
The Short Stories of Eudora Welty 2 exemplaren
Złote jabłka 1 exemplaar
Rare Selected Stories of Eudora Welty / 1943 - NY: Modern Library, 1943 [Hardcover] Welty, Eudora 1 exemplaar
As maçãs douradas 1 exemplaar
The Ponder Heart. Review Copy. 1 exemplaar
OS MEUS PRIMEIROS PASSOS COMO ESCRITORA 1 exemplaar
The Demonstrators [short story] 1 exemplaar
The Jackson Cookbook 1 exemplaar
A Writer's Life 1 exemplaar
Eudora Welty On Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Delta Wdding 1 exemplaar
The Little Store 1 exemplaar
Four Photographs 1 exemplaar
A Visit of Charity 1 exemplaar
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir Vol 2 1 exemplaar
Place in Fiction 1 exemplaar
Welty, Eudora Archive 1 exemplaar
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Kella, the Outcast Indian Maiden 1 exemplaar
Aptal İncir Ağacı 1 exemplaar
The Essential Welty 1 exemplaar
Eudora Welty-member choice 1 exemplaar
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Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Welty, Eudora Alice
- Geboortedatum
- 1909-04-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2001-07-23
- Graflocatie
- Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Opleiding
- Mississippi State College for Women (Mississippi University for Women)
University of Wisconsin (BA|1929)
Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1930-31) - Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
photographer
publicity agent
reporter
lecturer (toon alle 7)
teacher - Relaties
- Porter, Katherine Anne (friend)
Aswell, Mary Louise (friend|correspondent) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1952])
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Works Progress Administration
The New York Times
Harvard University (lecturer)
Junior League of Jackson (toon alle 7)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
National Medal of Arts (1986)
National Book Foundation Medal (1991)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (1991)
Rea Award for the Short Story (1992)
PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story (1992) (toon alle 20)
Charles Frankel Prize (1993)
Distinguished Alumni Award (American Association of State Colleges and Universities ∙ 1993)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1987)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1991)
Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (1996)
America Award (2000)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1972)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1970)
National Medal for Literature (1980)
Common Wealth Award (1984)
Order of the South
National Women's Hall of Fame (2000)
National Humanities Medal (1992)
First living author published in the Library of America series
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Discussies
Delta Wedding Group Read - Discussion Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (november 2022)
October 2014: Eudora Welty in Monthly Author Reads (oktober 2014)
Eudora Welty- American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (juli 2014)
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Alike in much of their early experience, always recommending and gifting new books or other cultural finds. Supportive of other creativity. Reporting on meetings with other writers, as in this report by Maxwell of meeting Isak Dinesen:
She herself at times looked like a falcon. Though we talked all through dinner, she didn't do more than consider and reply to my remarks, until the dessert, and then something, I forget what, the fact that I had just finished making a doll house, perhaps, for my daughter, made her melt, and she talked to me-but still not personally, not as if she liked me or ever wanted to see me again. But in such a way as to make me love her forever. Her voice is so beautiful, the accent isn't either British or American. It has notes that are like cello music. It's like listening to Hayden (Haydn). And those burning black eyes. It is several years too late to be her friend, but it is not too late to remember what she is like, as long as I live. p133.
Isn't Dinesen now vividly in your imagination?
It is also amazing to think that they each carried out multiple correspondences, although this was the closest to them both I think. How lucky we are to have it.
Of course I now want to read more of both of their stories, I just ordered Maxwell's complete stories, and am trying to put my hands on my volume of Welty's.… (meer)