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1909 Eudora Alice Welty is born on April 13 in Jackson, Mississippi to Christian Webb Welty and Mary Chestina Welty.
1925 Graduates Central High School in Jackson.
1925- Attends Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus.
1927
1927- Ears B.A. at University of Wisconsin.
1929
1930- Studies advertising at Columbia University School of Business.
1931
1931 Returns to Jackson; death of father.
1931- Works for local radio station and various newspapers.
1933
1933- Publicity work for W.P.A.
1936
1936 "Death of a Traveling Salesman" and "Magic" are published.
1937 "A Memory" and "A Piece of News" published in The Southern Review; "Flowers for Marjorie" and "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" published in Prairie Schooner.
1940 Diarmuid Russell becomes Miss Welty's literary agent.
1941 "A Worn Path" and "Why I Live at the P.O." published in The Atlantic Monthly: A Curtain of Green published. Second prize O. Henry Memorial Contest Award for "A Worn Path.
1942 The Robber Bridegroom published. First prize O. Henry Memorial Contest Award for "The Wide Net."
1942- Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
1943
1943 The Wide Net and Other Stories published. First prize O. Henry Memorial Contest Award for "Livvie is Back."
1944 $1000 award from American Academy of Arts and Letters. On staff of New York Times Book Review for six months.
1945 Delta Wedding appeared serially in The Atlantic Monthly.
1946 Delta Wedding Published.
1947 Speech entitled "Some Views on the Reading and Writing of Short Stories" given at Pacific Northwest Writers' Conference, University of Washington. Three months' residence in San Francisco.
1948 Music from Spain published.
1949 The Golden Apples published.
1949- Renewal of Guggenheim Fellowship. Travels to France, Italy, England
1950
1950 Short Stories published
1951 Second prize O. Henry Memorial Contest Award for "The Burning."
1952 Election to National Institute of Arts and Letters; recording of three stories for Caedmon Publications; travels to Europe.
1954 The Ponder Heart published in book form; Modern Library Edition of A Curtain of Green and The Wide Net. Honorary LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
1955 Trip to Europe. Address on "Place in Fiction" given at Cambridge University. Receives William Dean Howells Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters for Ponder Heart. The Bride of the Innisfallen published. Honorary LL.D. from Western College for Women.
1956 Place in Fiction published; The Ponder Heart dramatized on Broadway; Honorary LL.D. from Smith College.
1958- Lucy Donnelley Fellowship Award from Bryn Mawr College.
1959
1958- Honorary Consultant of Library of Congress
1961
1960 Ingram Memorial Foundation Award in Literature.
1962 Publishes Three Papers on Fiction.
1964 Publishes The Shoe Bird.
1965 Publishes Thirteen Stories.
1969 Publishes autobiographical essay, A Sweet Devouring.
1970 Receives Edward McDowell Medal. Publishes Losing Battles.
1971 Publishes One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, A Snapshot Album.
1972 Publishes The Optimist's Daughter. Receives the Gold Medal for Fiction.
1973 Receives the Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter.
1974 Publishes A Pageant of Birds.
1975 Publishes Fairy Tale of Natchez Trace.
1978 Publishes The Eye of the Story. Selected Essays and Reviews.
1979 Publishes Ida M'Toy.
1980 Receives the National Medal of Literature for past and continuing contributions to literature, and the Medal of Freedom Award. Publishes The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
1981 Publishes "Bye-Bye Brevoort"
1983 Delivers first annual Massey Lectures in the History of Civilization at Harvard University.
1984 One Writer's Beginnings published. Wins American Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature from Modern Language Association of America.
1987 Receives National Medal of Arts.
1988 Stories from 'The Golden Apples'.
1989 Publishes Photographs.
1996 Awarded French Legion of Honor.
Additional Material
Evens, Elizabeth. Eudora Welty. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.
Vande Kieft, Ruth M. Eudora Welty. New York: Twayne, 1962.
Johnston, Carol Ann. Eudora Welty: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1997.
Eudora
Welty, Mississippi Writer
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