Eudora Welty

Person · Open Library

Born

1909

Died

2001

Works

157

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

United States

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

105

Total plays

258

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an award-winning American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her book, The Optimist's Daughter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, is a National Historic Landmark and open to the public as a museum. <a href="https

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Knockout of Glutamate Transporters Reveals a Major Role for Astroglial Transport in Excitotoxicity and Clearance of Glutamate

   · 1996 · cited 2,172x

2. A critical review of data on field‐scale dispersion in aquifers

   · 1992 · cited 1,610x

3. Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm

   · 2021 · cited 1,034x

4. Impact of Diabetes on Cardiac Structure and Function

   · 2000 · cited 730x

5. Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project

   · 2010 · cited 724x

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Quotes

• “Needle in air, I stopped what I was making. From the upper casement, my look-out on the sea, I saw them disembark and find the path; I heard that whole drove of mine break loose on the beautiful strangers. I slipped down the ladder. When I heard men breathing and sandals kicking the stones, I threw open the door. A shaft of light from the zenith struck my brow, and the wind let out my hair. Something else swayed my body outward."Welcome!" I said- the most dangerous word in the world.”
• “If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?”
• “What can place not give? Theme. It can present theme, show it to the last detail — but place is forever illustrative: it is a picture of what man has done and imagined, it is his visible past, result. Human life is fiction’s only theme. ("Place in Fiction")”
• “The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.”
• “The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.”
• “Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”

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Key facts

Born

Eudora Alice Welty , ( 1909-04-13 ) April 13, 1909, Jackson, Mississippi , U.S.

Died

July 23, 2001 (2001-07-23) (aged 92), Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.

Occupation

Author, photographer

Education

Mississippi University for Women , University of Wisconsin, Madison ( BA ), Columbia University ( MA )

Notable works

The Optimist's Daughter (1972) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1983)

Notable awards

Edward MacDowell Medal Pulitzer Prize for Fiction National Book Award for Fiction

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