Eudora Welty
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Standard Name: Welty, Eudora
Birth Name: Eudora Alice Welty
southern USA in her fictional engagement with the lives and the voices of black people, but her reputation short-changes her in one way. She is often remembered as quirky, humorous, and soft-centred, whereas in fact her rendering of the lives of poor people of both races has a marked political edge.
published five novels or novellas, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry, and a book for children, but her short stories are her most admired works. Her work spans the last forty years of the twentieth century. She stands out among white writers from the Timeline
Texts
Welty, Eudora. A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. Doubleday, Doran, 1941.
Welty, Eudora. “A Sweet Devouring”. Mademoiselle.
Welty, Eudora. “A Sweet Devouring”. The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, pp. 246-51.
Welty, Eudora. A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews. Editor McHaney, Pearl Amelia, University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
Welty, Eudora. Delta Wedding. Harcourt, Brace, 1946.
Welty, Eudora. Losing Battles. Random House, 1970.
Welty, Eudora. One Time, One Place. Random House, 1971.
Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings. Harvard University Press, 1984.
Welty, Eudora. The Bride of the Innisfallen. Harcourt, Brace, 1955.
Welty, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
Welty, Eudora. “The Demonstrators”. The New Yorker.
Welty, Eudora. The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews. Random House, 1978.
Welty, Eudora. The Golden Apples. Harcourt, Brace, 1949.
Welty, Eudora. “The Optimist’s Daughter”. The New Yorker, pp. 37-128.
Welty, Eudora. The Optimist’s Daughter. Random House, 1972.
Welty, Eudora. The Ponder Heart. Harcourt, Brace, 1954.
Welty, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
Welty, Eudora. The Wide Net and Other Stories. Harcourt, Brace, 1943.
Welty, Eudora. “Where Is the Voice Coming From?”. The New Yorker, pp. 24-5.