WRITER

Eudora Welty

1909 - 2001

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Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eudora Welty has received more than 1,117,252 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Eudora Welty is the 4,655th most popular writer (down from 4,590th in 2019), the 6,292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,569th in 2019) and the 506th most popular American Writer.

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  • 34

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  • 4.72

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Notable Works

Curtain of green and other stories
Manners and customs, Fiction
1936
The robber bridegroom
Fiction, Merchants, Brigands and robbers
1942
The optimist's daughter
Fiction, Mississippi in fiction, Funeral rites and ceremonies in fiction
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to explore her past and her family in order to make sense of her future.
1972
The golden apples
Fiction, Social life and customs, American Short stories
1947
The Ponder heart
Fiction, Hotelkeepers, Trials (Murder)
1954
Delta wedding
Fiction, Weddings, Plantation life
Pretty Dabney Fairchild, only seventeen years old, is marrying her father's overseer. Throughout a long, dreamy week in the Delta, friends and relatives gather to prepare, to gossip, to reminisce, as the tangled vines of blood and memory tighten in a loving, inexorable grasp.
1946

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eudora Welty ranks 4,655 out of 7,302. Before her are Mieke Bal, Hans Jæger, Miljenko Jergović, Koji Suzuki, Nicholas Meyer, and Constantin Negruzzi. After her are Joseph Roumanille, Tatyana Tolstaya, Steven Erikson, Aelianus Tacticus, Hermann Kesten, and Andrej Sládkovič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eudora Welty ranks 271. Before her are Norris Bradbury, Adolf Šimperský, Marianne Hoppe, David Miller, Hilde Domin, and James Agee. After her are Jaime Lazcano, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Reinhold Münzenberg, Vagn Holmboe, Carlo Agostoni, and Saul Alinsky. Among people deceased in 2001, Eudora Welty ranks 215. Before her are Boris Rybakov, Joe Fagan, Sivaji Ganesan, Lewis Arquette, Ranko Marinković, and Ettore Puricelli. After her are Juan José Arreola, Martha Mödl, Cornelius Warmerdam, Kateryna Yushchenko, Jane Greer, and Luise Krüger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eudora Welty ranks 6,292 out of 20,380. Before her are Blind Blake (1893), David Doyle (1929), Leif Erickson (1911), Bert Roach (1891), Scott Eastwood (1986), and Nolan Ryan (1947). After her are Edward Livingston (1764), David Wayne (1914), William Stokoe (1919), Herbie Mann (1930), Nathan East (1955), and John Wesley Shipp (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Eudora Welty ranks 506. Before her are Gordon Willis (1931), Anita Loos (1889), Robert Lowell (1917), James Agee (1909), Zane Grey (1872), and Nicholas Meyer (1945). After her are Tobias Wolff (1945), Louis Bromfield (1896), Mary McCarthy (1912), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Bo Goldman (1932), and Helene Hanff (1916).

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