Stories, essays & memoir
Main Author: | Welty, Eudora, 1909- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Library of America : Distributed by Penguin Books USA,
1998.
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Series: |
Library of America ;
102 |
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Physical Description: |
p. cm. |
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ISBN: |
1883011558 (acid-free paper) |
Author Notes: |
Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) |