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By Eudora Welty
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EudoraAliceWelty
Mother:
Mary
ChestinaWelty Birth:
April 13,1909
Died:
July23,2001
Jackson,
Mississippi
WalterAndrews
Brothers:
EdwardJefferson
Father:Christian
WebbWelty
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Schoolteacher
Believed that any room
in our house,at any timein the day,was there toread in,or to be read to
Eudora developeda love of reading
Eudoras mother
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Eudoras father
Insurance executivewas intrigued by
gadgets and
machines
inspired in Eudoraa love of all things
mechanical
Eudora used technologyfor symbolism in her
stories
become an avidphotographer
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The Eudora Welty House
Near the time ofher high schoolgraduation, Eudoramoved with her familyto a house built for
them at 1119Pinehurst Street,which would remainher permanentaddress until herdeath. Wyatt C.Hedrick designed the
Welty's Tudor Revivalstyle home, which isnow known asthe Eudora WeltyHouse.
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Eudora studied atthe Mississippi
State College forWomen
then transferred tothe University ofWisconsin tocomplete her
studies in English
Literature
studiedadvertising atColumbia
University at thesuggestion of her
father
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She took a job at a local radio station.
Wrote about Jackson society for the Tennesseenewspaper Commercial Appeal.
1931
She began work for the Works Progress
Administration. Held meetings in her house with fellow writersand friends,a group she called the Night-Blooming Cereus Club.
1935
She published The Death of a TravellingSalesman in the literary magazine Manuscript.
Then proceeded to publish stories in severalother notable publications,including The New
Yorker.
1936
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She left her job to become a full-timewriter.1938
She returned home to Jackson to takecare of her elderly mother and twobrothers.1960
She published a collection ofphotographs depicting the GreatDepression titled One Time,One
Place.
1971
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O. HENRY AWARD
FIRST PLACE
1942 : THE WIDE NET
1943 : LIVVIE IS BACK
1968 : THE DEMONSTRATORS
SECOND PLACE
1941 : A WORN PATH 1954 William Dean Howells medal for fiction, The
Ponder Heart 1973 Pulitzer Prize, The Optimist's Daughter 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom[25] 1981 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters
from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in
Lynchburg, Virginia
f f
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1983 National Book Award for the first paperbackedition of The Collected Works of EudoraWelty[26][a]
1983 Invited by Harvard University to give thefirst annual Massey Lectures in the History ofAmerican Civilization, revised and published asOne Writer's Beginnings[3][10]
1986 National Medal of Arts. 1991 National Book Foundation Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters[27][28] 1991 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished AuthorAward[28][29] The Helmerich Award is presentedannually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
1992 Rea Award for the Short Story[30]
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1992 PEN/Malamud Award for the ShortStory[30]
1993 Charles Frankel Prize, National Endowment
for the Humanities[30] 1993 Distinguished Alumni Award, American
Association of State Colleges and Universities[30]
1996 Made a Chevalier de la Lgion dhonneurbythe French government
1998 First living author to have her works
published in the prestigious Library of Americaseries.[3] Short story collections[edit]
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A Worn Path is set in the rural South, containingelements of both nature and society.
This story is set in the Natchez trace in the
southwestern state of Mississippi.The trace is anold highway that runs from Nashville,Tennessee,toNatchez,Mississippi.
Linkage: As a publicity agent,she collectedstories,conducted interviews and tookphotographs of daily life in Mississippi.It was hereshe observed the Southern life and human
relationships that she used in her short story.
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