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American Author Eudora Welty Autographs (Lot of 10):
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AUTHOR EUDORA WELTY AUTOGRAPHS (LOT OF 10)
Lot of ten (10) 8 1/2\" x 9\"sheets signed beneath her printed name, intended for binding into an edition of one of her works. Ex: Lord John Press.In fine condition
Measures 8 1/2\" x 9\"
Eudora Alice Welty(April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about theAmerican South. Her novelThe Optimist\'s Daughterwon thePulitzer Prizein 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including thePresidential Medal of Freedomand theOrder of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by theLibrary of America.Her houseinJackson, Mississippi, has been designated as aNational Historic Landmarkand is open to the public as a house museum.

Eudora Welty was born inJackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909, the daughter of Christian Webb Welty (1879–1931) and Mary Chestina (Andrews) Welty (1883–1966). She grew up with younger brothers Edward Jefferson and Walter Andrews.[1]Her mother was a schoolteacher. Welty soon developed a love of reading reinforced by her mother, who believed that \"any room in our house, at any time in the day, was there to read in, or to be read to.\"[2]Her father, who worked as an insurance executive, was intrigued by gadgets and machines and inspired in Welty a love of mechanical things. She later used technology for symbolism in her stories and also became an avid photographer, like her father.

She attendedCentral High Schoolin Jackson.[4]Near the time of her high school graduation, Welty moved with her family to a house built for them at 1119 Pinehurst Street, which remained her permanent address until her death.Wyatt C. Hedrickdesigned the Weltys\' Tudor Revival-style home, which is now known as theEudora Welty House and Garden.

TheEudora Welty House

Welty studied at theMississippi State College for Womenfrom 1925 to 1927, then transferred to theUniversity of Wisconsinto complete her studies in English literature. At the suggestion of her father, she studied advertising atColumbia University. Because she graduated in the depths of theGreat Depression, she struggled to find work in New York.

Soon after Welty returned to Jackson in 1931, her father died ofleukaemia. She took a job at a local radio station and wrote about Jackson society for theMemphisnewspaperCommercial Appeal.[6]In 1933, she began work for theWorks Progress Administration. As a publicity agent, she collected stories, conducted interviews, and took photographs of daily life in Mississippi. She gained a wider view of Southern life and the human relationships that she drew from for her short stories.[7]During this time she also held meetings in her house with fellow writers and friends, a group she called the Night-Blooming Cereus Club. Three years later, she left her job to become a full-time writer.[3]

In 1936, she published \"The Death of a Traveling Salesman\" in the literary magazineManuscript, and soon published stories in several other notable publications includingThe Sewanee ReviewandThe New Yorker.[8]She strengthened her place as an influential Southern writer when she published her first book of short stories,A Curtain of Green. Her new-found success won her a seat on the staff ofThe New York Times Book Review, as well as aGuggenheim Fellowshipwhich enabled her to travel to France, England, Ireland, and Germany.[9]While abroad, she spent some time as a resident lecturer at the universities ofOxfordandCambridge, becoming the first women to be permitted into the hall ofPeterhouse College.[10]In 1960, she returned home to Jackson to care for her elderly mother and two brothers.[11]

AfterMedgar Evers, field secretary of theNAACPin Mississippi, was assassinated, she published a story inThe New Yorker, \"Where Is the Voice Coming From?\". She wrote it in the first person as the assassin.

In 1971, she published a collection of her photographs depicting the Great Depression, titledOne Time, One Place. Two years later, she received thePulitzer Prize for Fictionfor her novelThe Optimist\'s Daughter.[9][12]She lectured atHarvard University, and eventually adapted her talks as a three-part memoir titledOne Writer\'s Beginnings.[3][13]She continued to live in her family house in Jackson until her death from natural causes on July 23, 2001.[14]She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson. Her headstone has a quote fromThe Optimist\'s Daughter: \"For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.\"[15]

Throughout the 1970s, Welty carried on a lengthy correspondence with novelistRoss Macdonald, creator of theLew Archerseries of detective novels.

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