Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was born inside Jackson, Mississippi, United States, and she lived the important part of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her page has been preserved. She was educated at a Mississippi State College for Women (Nowadays known as Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University.

In a period of the 1930s, Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration. This job sent her completely on top a state of Mississippi taking photographs of population from either tons economic & social classes. Collections of her exposure come Once, 1 Place, & Photo.

However Welty's avowedly love was language, non photography. She shortly devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her number one short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared around 1936. Around 1941 she published her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green. Her novel, ''The Optimist's Daughter'', won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

A American writer, Alice Munro, has said that Welty's "A Worn Path" is perchance a virtually all hone short story ever written.

Eudora Welty died of pneumonia in Jackson. A e-mail client Eudora was named when her (within information to her short story "Why I Live at the P.O.").

Bibliography

A Curtain of Green (1941); published as A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories in 1964. The Robber Bridegroom (1942) The Wide Net, and Other Stories (1943) Delta Wedding (1946) Music from Spain (1946) The Golden Apples (1949) Selected Stories (1953) The Ponder Heart (1954) The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories (1954) The Shoe Bird (Children's book) (1964) Thirteen Stories (1965) A Sweet Devouring (1969) Losing Battles (1970) One Time, One Place: MS in the Depression: A Snapshot Album (1971) ''The Optimist's Daughter (1972) The Eye of the Story (1977) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980) One Writer's Beginnings (1984) Morgana: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples' (1988) Photographs (1989) A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews (1994) Complete Novels (Library of America volume) (1998) Stories, Essays, & Memoir'' (Library of America volume) (1998)