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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

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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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