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Also Known As Eudora Alice Welty
Born April 13, 1909 • Jackson • Mississippi
Died July 23, 2001 (aged 92) • Jackson • Mississippi
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
Notable Works “A Curtain of Green” • “Delta Wedding” • “Losing Battles” • “One Writer’s Beginnings” • “The Eye of the Story” • “The Golden Apples” • “The Optimist’s Daughter” • “The Petrified Man” • “The Ponder Heart” • “The Wide Net and Other Stories” • “Why I Live at the P.O.”

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