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Bio

(1909-2001) Novelist. Eudora Welty briefly attended Columbia Business School in Manhattan, New York; she left to go back home, to take care of her sick mother.

Full Name

Eudora Welty

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1909

BIRTH

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909.

1930

RESIDENCE

Welty attended Columbia Business School in Manhattan, New York in 1930 and 1931.

1941

LITWORK

A Curtain Of Green


Collection of short stories.

1942

LITWORK

The Robber Bridegroom


Novella.

1943

LITWORK

The Wide Net


Collection of short stories.

1946

LITWORK

Delta Wedding


Novel.

1954

LITWORK

The Ponder Heart


Novel.

1955

LITWORK

The Bride of Innisfallen


Collection of short stories.

1970

LITWORK

Losing Battles


Novel.

1972

LITWORK

The Optimist's Daughter


Novel and winner of 1973 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

1980

LITWORK

Collected Stories


Collection of short stories.

1984

LITWORK

One Writer's Beginnings


Autobiography.

2001

DEATH

Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Mississippi in 2001.

2001

INTERMENT

Eudora Welty is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi.

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