Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. She studied at Mississippi State College for Women and the University of Wisconsin, where she took her B.A., and she did graduate study at Columbia University. Her work centers on the American South.
Her books include A Curtain of Green (1941), Delta Wedding (1946), The Golden Apples (1949), Losing Battles (1970) and The Optimist's Daughter (1972). The Optimist's Daughter won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the first living author published by the Library of America, and she died in Jackson in 2001.
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