EudoraWelty

• Personal Life Eudora Welty was born April 13,1909 in Jackson, Mississippi to Christian Webb and Chestina Andrew Welty. She went to Central High School and graduated in 1925. After graduating Eudora attended Mississippi State College for Women from 1925-1927 and then transferred to the University of Wiconsin, where she became an English major and focused on the studies of English literature. She received her bachelor of art degree in 1929. Then, she attended Columbia University Graduate School of Buisness in New York. When the Depression hit she moved back to Jackson, Mississippi and in that same year her father suddenly died and she had to take on her first job. • Professional Life The first job she had was working a part-time job with WJDX. Then, she got a full-time job with the Works Progress Administration as a Junior Publicity Agent. Eudora's duties at this job consisted of writing newspaper copies and taking pictures of places after destruction, studying troubled juveniles, putting booths in county fairs, and interviewing various people. In June 1936 her career finally began to spark with her first published short story "Death of a Traveling Salesman." Her first novel **Delta Wedding** was published in 1946. • Major works • Awards won > **The Library of America released two volumes of works by Welty: //Eudora Welty: Complete//** > **//Novels// and //Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir//** > • Period and/or Style Eudora was devoted to writing fiction books • Favorite Themes
 * //Death of a Traveling Salesman//" 1936**
 * **"A Curtain of Green," with a preface by Katherine Anne Porter, Doubleday, 1941, published as //A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories//, 1964**
 * **//The Robber Bridgegroom// (novella), 1942**
 * **//The Wide Net, and Other Stories// 1943**
 * **//Delta Wedding// (novel) 1946**
 * **//Music from Spain,// Levee Press 1948**
 * **"Short Stories" (address delivered at University of Washington) 1949**
 * **//The Golden Apples// 1949**
 * **//Selected Stories// 1953**
 * **//The Ponder Heart// (novel) 1954**
 * **//The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories// 1955**
 * **"//Place in Fiction//" (lectures for conference on American Studies in Cambridge, England) 1957**
 * **Three Papers on Fiction (addresses) 1962**
 * **//The Shoe Bird// (juvenile) 1964** [[image:http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/one_writers_beginnings.JPG width="148" height="242" align="right"]]
 * **//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 Daught__er__// (novel) 1972**
 * **//The Eye of the Story// (selected essays and reviews) 1978**
 * **//The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty// 1980**
 * **//One Writer's Beginnings// 1984 (autobiography)**
 * **//Morgana: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples'// 1988**
 * **//Photographs// 1989**
 * **Guggenheim Award 1942**
 * **O. Henry Award 1942, 1943, 1968**
 * **National Institute of Arts and Letters 1944**
 * **Grants in literature 1972**
 * **Gold Medal for fiction writing**
 * **William Dean Howells Medal from American Academy of Arts and Letters for //The Ponder Heart// 1955**
 * **Edward McDowell Medal 1970**
 * **National Book Award for fiction __(__//Losing Battles//) 1971**
 * **Christopher Book Award for "//One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression; A Snapshot//" 1972**
 * **Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The //Optimist's Daughter// 1973**
 * **National Medal for Literature 1980**
 * **American Book Award for //The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty// 1961 and //One Writer's Beginnings// 1984**
 * **Common Wealth Awards for Distinguished Service in Literature from Modern Language Association of America 1984**
 * **National Book Critics Circle Award and //Los Angles Times// Book Prize nominations for //One Writer's Beginnings// 1984**
 * **National Medal of Arts 1987**
 * **French Legion of Honor-(highest civilian honor) 1996**[[image:http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/welty_stories.jpg width="92" height="150" align="right"]]
 * **First living writer ever to be included in the prestigious Library of America series, 1999.**