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This story of a young woman’s confrontation
with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson,
Mississippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi
State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and
the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Her short
stories appeared in The Southern Review, Atlantic
Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New
Yorker, and other magazines. She lectured at a number
of colleges, held the William Allan Neilson professorship
at Smith and the Lucy Donnelly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and
was a lecturer at the Conference of American Studies at Cambridge
University. She worked under grants from the Rockefeller and
Merrill foundations and the National Institute of Arts and
Letters, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was given honorary
degrees from Smith, the University of Wisconsin, Western College
for Women, Denison University, the University of the South
at Sewanee, and Millsaps College in Jackson. She also received
the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr, the Brandeis Medal
of Achievement, and the Hollins Medal; her novel The Ponder
Heart was awarded the Howells Medal for Fiction by the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eudora Welty died in
2001.
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