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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.

She 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, and Columbia University's business school. During the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her all over the state of Mississippi taking photographs of people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are One Time, One Place, and Photographs.

But Welty's true love was language, not photography, and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, Death of a Traveling Salesman, appeared in 1936 and in 1941 she published her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green. Her novel, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

The Canadian writer Alice Munro has said that Welty's A Worn Path is perhaps the most perfect short story ever written .

The e-mail client Eudora was named after her (in reference to her short story ([1]) Why I Live at the P.O. ([2]).

Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson, aged 92.

Major Works

• "Death of a Traveling Salesman" 1936
• "A Worn Path" 1941
• The Robber Bridegroom (novella) 1942
• The Wide Net and Other Stories 1943
• The Golden Apples 1949
• The Ponder Heart 1953
• The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories 1955
• Three Papers on Fiction (addresses) 1962
• "A Curtain of Green" 1964
• The Shoe Bird (juvenile) 1964
• Thirteen Stories 1965
• A Sweet Devouring (nonfiction) 1969
• Losing Battles (novel) 1970
• "A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car" (poem) 1970
• One Time, One Place: MS in the Depression: A Snapshot Album 1971
• The Optimist's Daughter (novel) 1972
• The Eye of the Story (selected essays and reviews) 1978
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 1980
• One Writer's Beginnings (autobiography) 1984
• Morgana: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples' 1988
• Photographs 1989
• A Delta Wedding

External links

• CNN Obituary
• BBC Obituary
• Literary Encyclopedia biography
• A Hometown Perspective
• The Mississippi Writers Page
• Eudora Welty Foundation
• [3]
• PBS
• Eudora Welty links
• [4]
• The Paris Review interview
• Footage of Eudora Welty discovered CBC August 26, 2006
• Columbians Ahead of Their Time

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