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- NAME: Eudora Welty
- OCCUPATION: Photographer, Journalist, Author
- BIRTH DATE: April 13, 1909
- DEATH DATE: July 23, 2001
- EDUCATION: Mississippi State College for Women, University of Wisconsin
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Jackson, Mississippi
- PLACE OF DEATH: Jackson, Mississippi
- Full Name: Eudora Alice Welty
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Short-story writer and novelist Eudora Welty’s work focuses on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her birthplace.
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Eudora Welty's first short story was published in 1936, and thereafter her work began to appear regularly, first in little magazines and later in major periodicals. Her readership grew steadily after the publication of A Curtain of Green, a volume of short stories. In 1946 she published her first full-length novel. Her later novels include The Optimist's Daughter (1972), which won a Pulitzer.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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