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Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer.
* She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909.
* She attended Mississippi State College for Women and the University of Wisconsin.
* She worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
* She published her first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941.
* She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 for her novel The Optimist's Daughter.
* She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
* She died on July 23, 2001, in Jackson, Mississippi.
* She is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
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