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1987 Sesquicentennial Medal from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 1987 Authors Award from the Mississippi Library Association. 1987 French Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et Lettres medal. Massey Lectures to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard, and the lectures were later published as One Writer's Beginnings and became a New York Times bestseller. 1986 The Eudora Welty Library, a branch of the Jackson Metropolitan Library, dedicated. Her popularity soared in the 1980s after she delivered the three William E. After years of care giving and the deaths of all her immediate family members, Welty persevered and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist's Daughter. The chapters that follow focus on her education and her most important teachers her life during the Depression and how her career, just getting started, is interrupted by World War II and how she shows independence and courage through her writing during the turbulent civil rights period of the 1950s and 1960s. This biography follows this twentieth-century path while telling Welty's story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life. Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today's greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909-2001). Location: Street: 1820 Coventry Rd Additional: City: Cleveland Heights, Province: Ohio Postal Code: 44118 Country: United States (added from IndieBound) … ( more)
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In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale.Įudora Welty (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). Legendary figures of Mississippi’s past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty’s own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Mac's Book Club will discuss The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty on Wednesday, September 18th at 7:30 p.m.