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'''Eudora Welty''' ([[April 13]], [[1909]] – [[July 23]], [[2001]]) was born in [[Jackson, Mississippi]] [[United States]] and she lived a significant portion of her life in the city's [[Belhaven]] neighborhood where her home has been preserved she was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (Now called [[Mississippi University for Women]]) the [[University of Wisconsin]] and [[Columbia University]] during the [[1930s]], Welty worked as a [[photography|photographer]] for the [[Works Progress Administration]] this job sent her all over the state of [[Mississippi]] taking photographs of people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs are ''One Time, One Place'', and ''Photographs''.

But Welty's true love was language, not photography and she soon devoted her energy to writing fiction. Her first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," appeared in [[1936]] and in [[1941]] she published her first collection of short stories, ''[[A Curtain of Green]]''. Her novel, ''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]'', won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]] in [[1973]].

The Canadian writer, Alice Munro, has said that Welty's "A Worn Path" is perhaps the most perfect short story ever written.

Eudora Welty died of [[pneumonia]] in Jackson. The email client [[Eudora_(email_client)|Eudora]] was named after her (in reference to her short story "Why I Live at the P.O.")

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