By Eudora Welty

Mother: Father: Christian Webb Welty

Brothers: Edward Jefferson

Mary Chestina Welty

Birth: April 13, 1909

Eudora Alice Welty

Died:

July 23,2001

Walter Andrews

Jackson, Mississippi

Eudoras mother

Schoolteacher

Believed that any room in our house,at any time in the day,was there to read in,or to be read to

Eudora developed a love of reading

Eudoras father

Insurance executive

was intrigued by gadgets and machines

inspired in Eudora a love of all things mechanical

Eudora used technology for symbolism in her stories

become an avid photographer

The Eudora Welty House

Near the time of her high school graduation, Eudora moved with her family to a house built for them at 1119 Pinehurst Street, which would remain her permanent address until her death. Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the Welty's Tudor Revival style home, which is now known as the Eudora Welty House.

Eudora studied at the Mississippi State College for Women

then transferred to the University of Wisconsin to complete her studies in English Literature

studied advertising at Columbia University at the suggestion of her father

1931 1935 1936

She took a job at a local radio station. Wrote about Jackson society for the Tennessee newspaper Commercial Appeal.

She began work for the Works Progress Administration. Held meetings in her house with fellow writers and friends,a group she called the NightBlooming Cereus Club.

She published The Death of a Travelling Salesman in the literary magazine Manuscript. Then proceeded to publish stories in several other notable publications,including The New Yorker.

1938 1960 1971

She left her job to become a full-time writer.

She returned home to Jackson to take care of her elderly mother and two brothers.

She published a collection of photographs depicting the Great Depression titled One Time,One Place.

O. HENRY AWARD
FIRST PLACE 1942 : THE WIDE NET 1943 : LIVVIE IS BACK 1968 : THE DEMONSTRATORS
SECOND PLACE 1941 : A WORN PATH

1954 William Dean Howells medal for fiction, The Ponder Heart 1973 Pulitzer Prize, The Optimist's Daughter 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom[25] 1981 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia

1983 National Book Award for the first paperback edition of The Collected Works of Eudora Welty[26][a] 1983 Invited by Harvard University to give the first annual Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, revised and published as One Writer's Beginnings[3][10] 1986 National Medal of Arts. 1991 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters[27][28] 1991 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award[28][29] The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. 1992 Rea Award for the Short Story[30]

1992 PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story[30] 1993 Charles Frankel Prize, National Endowment for the Humanities[30] 1993 Distinguished Alumni Award, American Association of State Colleges and Universities[30] 1996 Made a Chevalier de la Lgion dhonneur by the French government 1998 First living author to have her works published in the prestigious Library of America series.[3] Short story collections[edit]

A Worn Path is set in the rural South, containing elements of both nature and society.

This story is set in the Natchez trace in the southwestern state of Mississippi.The trace is an old highway that runs from Nashville,Tennessee,to Natchez,Mississippi.

Linkage: As a publicity agent,she collected stories,conducted interviews and took photographs of daily life in Mississippi.It was here she observed the Southern life and human relationships that she used in her short story.