Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13th, 1909 and passed away at the age of 92 on July 23rd, 2001.

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Eudora Welty Stats: The most read book by Eudora Welty on Book Notification is The Optimist's Daughter, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is Delta Wedding (A Harvest/Hbj Book #3).

Below is a complete list of Eudora Welty books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are The Optimist's Daughter, Delta Wedding, and Losing Battles.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Robber Bridegroom
1942
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2
8
Delta Wedding
1946
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3
The Ponder Heart
1954
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4
9
Losing Battles
1970
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5
8
The Optimist's Daughter
1972
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

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1
Moon Lake
2011
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List of Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top collections are The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. , and Stories, Essays & Memoir.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Bride of the Innisfallen
1940
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2
Why I Live at the P.O.
1941
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3
A Curtain of Green
1941
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4
The Wide Net
1943
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5
The Golden Apples
1949
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6
Thirteen Stories
1965
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7
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty
1977
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8
Moon Lake and Other Stories
1980
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9
8
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1980
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10
Stories, Essays & Memoir
1998
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List of 's Chapbooks in Publication Order

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1
The Shoe Bird
1964
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are On Writing, One Writer's Beginnings, and The Eye of the Story.

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1
One Time, One Place
1971
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2
The Eye of the Story
1978
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3
One Writer's Beginnings
1983
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4
Photographs
1989
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5
On Writing
2002
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6
Some Notes on River Country
2003
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7
On William Faulkner
2003
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8
Occasions
2009
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List of A Harvest/Hbj Book Books in Publication Order (with Thomas Merton)

Features classic works, covering fiction, spirituality, and other thoughtful subjects in accessible editions.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Curtain of Green
1941
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2
The Robber Bridegroom
1942
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3
8
Delta Wedding
1946
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4
The Waters of Siloe (By: Thomas Merton)
1949
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5
My $50,000 Year at the Races
1980
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List of Selected Shorts Books in Publication Order

Short stories from a variety of influential authors.

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1
10
For Better and for Worse
1993
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2
Even More Laughs
1998
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3
Timeless Classics
2006
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4
Falling in Love
2007
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5
Food Fictions
2007
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6
Travel Tales
2007
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7
Edith Wharton
2007
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8
Pets!
2007
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9
Tales of Betrayal
2007
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10
Family Matters
2007
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11
Are We There Yet?
2008
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12
A Touch of Magic
2009
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13
The William Hurt Collection
2009
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14
Whodunit?
2009
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15
10
American Classics
2010
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16
New American Stories
2011
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17
Poe!
2012
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List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

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1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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3
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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4
Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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5
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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7
Conversations with William Styron
1985
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8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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13
Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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15
Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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16
Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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18
Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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20
Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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21
Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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23
Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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24
Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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25
Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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26
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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29
Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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31
Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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36
Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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38
More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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39
Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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40
Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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43
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Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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44
Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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45
Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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46
Conversations With S.J. Perelman
1995
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47
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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48
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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49
Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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50
Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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51
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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52
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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53
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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54
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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55
Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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56
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
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57
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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58
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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59
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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60
Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
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61
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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62
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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63
Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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64
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
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65
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
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66
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
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67
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
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68
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
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69
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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70
Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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71
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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72
Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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73
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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74
Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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75
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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76
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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77
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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78
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Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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79
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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80
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
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81
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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82
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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83
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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84
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
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85
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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86
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
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87
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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88
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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89
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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90
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
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91
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
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92
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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93
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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94
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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95
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
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96
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
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Conversations with Jimmy Carter
2023
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List of Eudora Welty Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
1954
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2
Women and Fiction
1975
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3
In the Looking Glass
1977
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4
Stories of the Modern South
1977
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5
Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1
1983
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6
Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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7
Women Writers at Work
1989
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8
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories
1990
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9
Cries of the Spirit
1991
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10
Growing Up in the South
1991
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11
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
1992
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12
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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13
Writing Women's Lives
1994
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14
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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15
Downhome
1995
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16
Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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17
The Eloquent Essay
2000
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18
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
2000
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19
8
40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
2000
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20
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
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21
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2007
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22
The Civil Rights Reader
2009
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23
Granta 115
2011
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Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was born on April 13th, 1909. Eudora passed away July 23rd, 2001 at 92 years old. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi.

Eudora Welty was the author of the Eudora Welty Collections series which consists of 10 novels. The Eudora Welty Collections series started in 1940 with the novel The Bride of the Innisfallen. The most recently released novel in the Eudora Welty Collections series was Stories, Essays & Memoir which was released in 1998. There are no upcoming novels for the Eudora Welty Collections series.

Eudora Welty also wrote 8 Non-Fiction Books, including One Time, One Place and The Eye of the Story.

Eudora Welty: Awards & Accolades

Eudora Welty has won multiple awards including: The St. Louis Literary Award Distinguished Figure in Literature, in 1983 and the Helmerich Award Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, in 1991.

Welty's book, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty won the National Book Awards, Best Fiction - Paperback, in 1983.

Eudora Welty books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Losing Battles was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction, in 1971. The Optimist's Daughter was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction, in 1973. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction - Hardcover, in 1981 as well as the Audie Award - Best Short Stories or Collections in 2012.

Eudora Welty: Lists & Other Mentions

  • The Optimist's Daughter was the Belletrist Book Club September 2018 Pick.
  • The Golden Apples : Oxford American: The Best Southern Novels of All Time Selection in 2009.
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty:
    1. Parade: The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years Selection in 2016.
    2. Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Selection in 2007.
  • The Optimist's Daughter: Oxford American: The Best Southern Novels of All Time Selection in 2009.
  • One Writer's Beginnings: Oxford American: The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time Selection in 2009.

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  4. Daphne du Maurier, author of: Rebecca.
  5. Barbara Kingsolver, author of: Demon Copperhead.

Eudora Welty: F.A.Q

When was Eudora Welty Born?

Eudora Welty was born on April 13th, 1909.

When did Eudora Welty die?

Eudora Welty died on July 23rd, 2001 at 92 years old.

Where was Eudora Welty Born?

Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, .

What awards has Eudora Welty won?

Eudora Welty has won the following awards: Distinguished Figure in Literature at the St. Louis Literary Award (1983) and the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award at the Helmerich Award (1991).

What book awards has Eudora Welty won?

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty: National Book Awards: Best Fiction - Paperback (1983).

What was the first book Eudora Welty wrote?

The first book written by Eudora Welty was The Bride of the Innisfallen , published in 1940.

What was the most recent book Eudora Welty wrote?

Their most recently released work was Moon Lake (a short story) on February 15th, 2011.

What is the most popular book by Eudora Welty?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Eudora Welty book is The Optimist's Daughter. Here are their most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. The Optimist's Daughter (8.00)
  2. Delta Wedding (8.00)
  3. Losing Battles (9.00)
  4. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (8.00)
  5. American Classics (10.00)

How many books has Eudora Welty written?

Eudora Welty has written 29 books across 12 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 5 Standalone Novels
  • 1 Short Stories/Novella
  • 10 Collections
  • 1 's Chapbooks
  • 8 Non-Fiction Books
  • 4 books in the A Harvest/Hbj Book Series
  • 1 book in the Selected Shorts Series
  • 2 books in the Literary Conversations Series

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