biography
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Welty, Eudora (Alice)
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| (1909–2001)
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| Writer, born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She studied at Mississippi State College for Women (1926–7), the University of Wisconsin (1929 BA), and Columbia's Graduate School of Business (1930–1). She worked for newspapers and a radio station in Mississippi, as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and lectured at several colleges, living most of her life in Jackson. Praised for her finely tuned Southern ‘Gothic’ novels, such as The Optimist's Daughter (1972), and the keen sense of the local place in her short fiction, as seen in The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980). Other works include One Time, One Place (1971), a collection of photographs taken when she worked for the WPA, and several collections of essays. |
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