Eudora Alice Welty (1909 - 2001)

Born 13 Apr 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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Died 23 Jul 2001 at age 92 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Eudora Welty is Notable.

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Her parents were Christian Webb Welty and Mary Chestine Andrews. She had two brothers, Edward Jefferson Welty and Walter Andrews Welty.

Ms. Welty was a Pulitzer prize winning author of short stories and novels as well as a photographer of scenes in rural Mississippi.

She died on July 23, 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA.

Research Notes

• 1997 Mississippi Writers Project article, “Eudora Welty, Mississippi Writer and Photographer.” Accessed March 5, 2017. http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/eudora-welty#bio.

• 2001 New York TImes obituary^[1]
  • Eudora Welty, age 92, died "yesterday" near Jackson, Mississippi
    [Death date presumed to be 23 July 2001 based on date of obituary.]
  • 1973 Pulitzer prize for "The Optimist's Daughter."
  • Born 13 April 1909 in Jackson [Mississippi]
  • Parents: Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty
  • Eudora email software named for her
  • Miss Welty never married
  • She leaves no immediate survivors

• Gravestone^[2]
  • Inscription:
    Eudora Alice
    Welty
    April 13, 1909
    July 23, 2001
    
    Daughter of
    Christian & Chestina Welty
    
    For her life, any life, she had
    to believe was nothing but the
    continuity of its love.
    
    The Optimist's Daughter

Sources

1. ↑ "Eudora Welty, a Lyrical Master Of the Short Story, Is Dead at 92," New York Times The (New York, United States: New York TImes Company), 24 July 2001 [https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Eudora+Welty New York Times (Subscription Service), byline Albin Krebs.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23294/eudora-welty: accessed March 22, 2024), memorial page for Eudora Welty (13 Apr 1909–23 Jul 2001), Find A Grave: Memorial #23294, citing Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

See also:

• The Eudora Welty Foundation
• Wikipedia contributors, "Eudora Welty," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, accessed 5 March 2017.
• http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00471.html Eudora Welty Small Manuscripts] (MUM00471), Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.