id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4872 Eudora Welty - Wikipedia .html text/html 6407 832 75 Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South. Two years later, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist's Daughter.[9][12] She lectured at Harvard University, and eventually adapted her talks as a three-part memoir titled One 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 work attracted the attention of author Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. Welty personally influenced several young Mississippi writers in their careers including Richard Ford,[26][27] Ellen Gilchrist,[28] and Elizabeth Spencer.[29] 1983: National Book Award for the first paperback edition of The Collected Works of Eudora Welty[37][a] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4872.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4872.txt