Eudora Welty, American novelist and short story writer (born 1909)

Eudora Welty

American writer and photographer (1909–2001)

Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of…