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EUDORA WELTY Born in Jackson, Mississippi (April 13, 1909), she attended the Mississippi College for Women, graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1929) and studied advertising at Columbia University for a year. Her first short story, Death of a Traveling Salesman, appeared in 1936, and gradually she began to be published in small, then regional and general circulation magazines. In 1941 she published her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green and began publishing novels, as well. Soon after her first novel was published, she stopped writing to care full-time for her family for fifteen years: for two brothers with severe arthritis and her mother who had had a stroke. After her mother died in 1966, she returned to writing. She was a 6-time winner of the O. Henry Award for Short Stories, and her many awards include the National Medal for Literature, the American Book Award, and, in 1969, a Pulitzer Prize. She was also an accomplished and published photographer. But it is for her fiction, usually set in the rural South, that she's known as the First Lady of Southern Literature. Eudora Welty died, of pneumonia, in Jackson (July 23, 2001). Major Works:
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