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Eudora Welty

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jul 23, 2001
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Jackson MS
About
Mississippi-born author whose Southern-themed novel, The Optimist's Daughter, received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is also known for A Worn Path (1940), The Wide Net (1943), and other short stories and short story collections.
Family
She and her two younger brothers were raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Her schoolteacher mother, Mary Andrews Welty, encouraged her love of reading and writing.

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