Welty, Eudora 1909-2001
Overview
| Works: | 1,530 works in 3,716 publications in 13 languages and 149,889 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Domestic fiction Short stories Criticism, interpretation, etc Biographies History Psychological fiction Short stories, American Historical fiction Reviews |
| Subject Headings: | Women authors, American Authors, American |
| Roles: | Author, Interviewee, Narrator, Photographer, Author of introduction, Signer, Other, Lyricist, Honoree, Creator, Former owner, win, Illustrator, Editor, Performer |
| Classifications: | PS3545.E6, 813.52 |
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Most widely held works about
Eudora Welty
- Eudora Welty by Harold Bloom( )
- Eudora Welty by Ruth M Vande Kieft( Book )
- The late novels of Eudora Welty by Jan Nordby Gretlund( )
- The heart of the story : Eudora Welty's short fiction by Peter Schmidt( )
- Disturbing Indians : the archaeology of southern fiction by Annette Trefzer( )
- Faulkner and Welty and the southern literary tradition by Noel Polk( )
- Eudora Welty : a biography by Suzanne Marrs( Book )
- Images of the Negro in American literature by Seymour L Gross( Book )
- Eudora Welty by J. A Bryant( Book )
- Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf : gender, genre, and influence by Suzan Harrison( )
- Stories, essays, & memoir : a curtain of green, and other stories ; The wide net, and other stories ; The golden apples ; The bride of the innisfallen, and other stories ; Other stories ; Selected essays ; One writer's beginnings by Eudora Welty( Book )
- Eudora Welty's Delta wedding( )
- Fiction of the forties by Chester E Eisinger( Book )
- The American short story : a critical survey by Arthur Voss( Book )
- Understanding Eudora Welty by Michael Kreyling( Book )
- Eudora Welty by Elizabeth Evans( Book )
- Eudora Welty : a study of the short fiction by Carol Ann Johnston( Book )
- The art of Southern fiction; a study of some modern novelists by Frederick J Hoffman( Book )
- Sacred groves and ravaged gardens : the fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor by Louise Hutchings Westling( Book )
- Violence in recent Southern fiction by Louise Y Gossett( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Eudora Welty
The optimist's daughter by
Eudora Welty(
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123 editions published between 1969 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 4,871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents
123 editions published between 1969 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 4,871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents
The collected stories of Eudora Welty by
Eudora Welty(
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90 editions published between 1900 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 4,289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision
90 editions published between 1900 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 4,289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision
Delta wedding : a novel by
Eudora Welty(
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110 editions published between 1945 and 2020 in 7 languages and held by 3,505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In effect, an atmospheric "family album" of snap-shots as they impress the memory of a nineteen-year-old girl who visits the Mississippi delta plantation home of her numerous cousins in 1923
110 editions published between 1945 and 2020 in 7 languages and held by 3,505 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In effect, an atmospheric "family album" of snap-shots as they impress the memory of a nineteen-year-old girl who visits the Mississippi delta plantation home of her numerous cousins in 1923
Losing battles by
Eudora Welty(
Book
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87 editions published between 1970 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 3,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrage Grandma's ninetieth birthday
87 editions published between 1970 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 3,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrage Grandma's ninetieth birthday
One writer's beginnings by
Eudora Welty(
Book
)
52 editions published between 1983 and 2020 in 4 languages and held by 3,160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award'winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is "profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write" (Los Angeles Times). Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father's coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother's sturdy independence, Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South'of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught'she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing "the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Part memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, this unique distillation of a writer's beginnings offers a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become
52 editions published between 1983 and 2020 in 4 languages and held by 3,160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award'winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is "profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write" (Los Angeles Times). Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father's coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia back country that became a metaphor for her mother's sturdy independence, Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture. In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South'of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught'she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing "the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Part memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, this unique distillation of a writer's beginnings offers a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become
The robber bridegroom by
Eudora Welty(
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88 editions published between 1942 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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. 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. "For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful" (New Yorker)
88 editions published between 1942 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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. 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. "For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful" (New Yorker)
The Ponder heart by
Eudora Welty(
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79 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,580 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs a hotel in a small Mississippi town, tells the story of her beloved, softhearted, but trying Uncle Daniel
79 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,580 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs a hotel in a small Mississippi town, tells the story of her beloved, softhearted, but trying Uncle Daniel
The golden apples by
Eudora Welty(
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82 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Southern short stories
82 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Southern short stories
Complete novels by
Eudora Welty(
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14 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 2,260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Often considered her masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1972
14 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 2,260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Often considered her masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1972
The eye of the story : selected essays and reviews by
Eudora Welty(
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49 editions published between 1900 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty discusses her own artistic endeavors and aims as well as providing commentaries on such writers as Chekhov, Faulkner, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen
49 editions published between 1900 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty discusses her own artistic endeavors and aims as well as providing commentaries on such writers as Chekhov, Faulkner, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen
A curtain of green, and other stories by
Eudora Welty(
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69 editions published between 1936 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 2,149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects short stories by a scrutinizer of Southern life, Eudora Welty, exposing the grotesque and violent nature of the human animal
69 editions published between 1936 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 2,149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects short stories by a scrutinizer of Southern life, Eudora Welty, exposing the grotesque and violent nature of the human animal
The Oxford book of short stories by
V. S Pritchett(
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1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 1,954 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sir Walter Scott / The Two Drovers, Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark, Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall Of The House Of Usher, ETC
1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 1,954 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sir Walter Scott / The Two Drovers, Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark, Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall Of The House Of Usher, ETC
The bride of the Innisfallen, and other stories by
Eudora Welty(
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32 editions published between 1949 and 1988 in English and held by 1,648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For contents, see Author Catalog
32 editions published between 1949 and 1988 in English and held by 1,648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For contents, see Author Catalog
Selected stories, containing all of A curtain of green, and other stories, and the wide net, and other stories by
Eudora Welty(
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41 editions published between 1943 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. 'I've stayed in one place, ' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination'. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque
41 editions published between 1943 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. 'I've stayed in one place, ' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination'. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque
A treasury of short stories : favorites of the past hundred years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway ; with
biographical sketches of the authors by
Bernardine Kielty(
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1 edition published in 1947 in English and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The death of Ivan IIyich; a day in the country, two little soldiers; Quattrocentisteria; the secret sharer; the pace of youth; the coming-out of Maggie; the voice in the night; the old hunter; the doll's house; Babylon Revistied; a telephone call
1 edition published in 1947 in English and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The death of Ivan IIyich; a day in the country, two little soldiers; Quattrocentisteria; the secret sharer; the pace of youth; the coming-out of Maggie; the voice in the night; the old hunter; the doll's house; Babylon Revistied; a telephone call
One time, one place: Mississippi in the depression; a snapshot album by
Eudora Welty(
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19 editions published between 1971 and 2002 in English and held by 1,342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration
19 editions published between 1971 and 2002 in English and held by 1,342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration
A writer's eye : collected book reviews by
Eudora Welty(
)
10 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pieces. Her distinguished book reviews, along with her critical essays, augment her reputation for being one of the most discerning author-critics in literary America. This collection of her book reviews manifests the connecting of her penetrating eye with her responsive intellect in forming sympathetic judgments of the books she reviewed. Between 1942 and 1984 Welty wrote sixty-seven reviews of seventy-four books. Fifty-eight of these appeared in the New York Times Book Review, and others in the Saturday Review of Literature, Tomorrow, the Hudson Review, the New York Post, and the Sewanee Review. The reviewed books include novels, short story collections, books of essays, biographies and memoirs, books of letters, children's books, books of ghost stories, photography books, books of literary criticism, and books of World War II art. Over nearly half a century she reviewed books by some of the foremost authors of her time - Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, V.S. Pritchett, Colette, Isak Dinesen, E.B. White, E.M. Forster, J.D. Salinger, Ross Macdonald, Patrick White, S.J. Perelman, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Bowen, and Katherine Anne Porter. A Writer's Eye includes all of Welty's book reviews, even one published in the New York Times Book Review under the pseudonym "Michael Ravenna." Sixteen of the reviews were collected previously in Welty's The Eye of the Story (1978). In this collection Pearl Amelia McHaney's introduction records the history of Welty's career in book reviewing and illuminates the honesty and compassion with which Welty wrote reviews. Welty's keen vision, her wit, and her refined style make these "monuments to interruption," a phrase she wrote in description of Virginia Woolf's essays and reviews, an important record of her literary standards and special interests. They show as well how book reviewing consumed a large measure of creative time that she customarily devoted to fiction writing. Placed beside her authoritative critical essays, this volume enhances Welty's considerable literary stature and completes the image of Eudora Welty as a consummate woman of letters
10 editions published between 1994 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pieces. Her distinguished book reviews, along with her critical essays, augment her reputation for being one of the most discerning author-critics in literary America. This collection of her book reviews manifests the connecting of her penetrating eye with her responsive intellect in forming sympathetic judgments of the books she reviewed. Between 1942 and 1984 Welty wrote sixty-seven reviews of seventy-four books. Fifty-eight of these appeared in the New York Times Book Review, and others in the Saturday Review of Literature, Tomorrow, the Hudson Review, the New York Post, and the Sewanee Review. The reviewed books include novels, short story collections, books of essays, biographies and memoirs, books of letters, children's books, books of ghost stories, photography books, books of literary criticism, and books of World War II art. Over nearly half a century she reviewed books by some of the foremost authors of her time - Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, V.S. Pritchett, Colette, Isak Dinesen, E.B. White, E.M. Forster, J.D. Salinger, Ross Macdonald, Patrick White, S.J. Perelman, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Bowen, and Katherine Anne Porter. A Writer's Eye includes all of Welty's book reviews, even one published in the New York Times Book Review under the pseudonym "Michael Ravenna." Sixteen of the reviews were collected previously in Welty's The Eye of the Story (1978). In this collection Pearl Amelia McHaney's introduction records the history of Welty's career in book reviewing and illuminates the honesty and compassion with which Welty wrote reviews. Welty's keen vision, her wit, and her refined style make these "monuments to interruption," a phrase she wrote in description of Virginia Woolf's essays and reviews, an important record of her literary standards and special interests. They show as well how book reviewing consumed a large measure of creative time that she customarily devoted to fiction writing. Placed beside her authoritative critical essays, this volume enhances Welty's considerable literary stature and completes the image of Eudora Welty as a consummate woman of letters
The Welty collection : a guide to the Eudora Welty manuscripts and documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and
History by
Suzanne Marrs(
)
3 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 1,305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 1,305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The wide net and other stories by
Eudora Welty(
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46 editions published between 1942 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 1,303 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of stories which capture the joys and sorrows of life in the deep South
46 editions published between 1942 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 1,303 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of stories which capture the joys and sorrows of life in the deep South
Fifty years of the American short story : from the O. Henry awards, 1919-1970 by
William Miller Abrahams(
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1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from Prize stories
1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selections from Prize stories
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Related Identities
- Faulkner, William 1897-1962
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961
- Marrs, Suzanne Author Editor
- Porter, Katherine Anne 1890-1980 Author of introduction Author Editor
- McHaney, Pearl Amelia Author Editor
- Baldwin, James 1924-1987
- McCullers, Carson 1917-1967 Author
- Bloom, Harold Author Editor
- Vande Kieft, Ruth M. (Ruth Marguerite) 1925- Author of introduction Author Editor
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