There was something in her spirit that was always outward-aimed, and glad of human foible, and it is hard to express exactly how it shone forth: one simply knew it when one was in its presence.ДЄt the Fellowship of Southern Writers Luncheon back in 1991, I plopped down next to her and stuck a fork into the chicken cordon-bleu that had been placed before me, and then realized that someone was saying a prayer for the gathering and that the whole audience, including people whom I knew quite well to be pagan, had heads bowed, hands folded. It was as if this were a tale of the kind of sweet innocence that a child might inspire, and even that isnвЂ™t adequate as a depiction of the attitude: for Miss Welty was in fact delighted by it. вЂњWhat weвЂ™d like you to do,вЂќ the librarian said, вЂњis come tell us one of your stories in your own words.вЂќ Miss WeltyвЂ™s eyes sparkled, relating this story, and there was no dismissal at all in her voice, no sense of the librarian as someone at whose expense the story was told. I was then a member of the PEN/Faulkner Board, and though the occasion was decidedly secular rather than religious, it was certainly spiritual: Miss Eudora Welty, then eighty-six years old, was going to read one of her stories.Д®arlier, at the dinner which always precedes such events, she had told how a town librarian once approached her, wanting her to come speak. It was late October, and there was a crispness in the air, the trees lining the avenues were all blazing with color. One evening not so long ago, I was present at a gathering in the Episcopal Church across from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. вЂњIS PHOENIX JACKSONвЂ™S GRANDSON REALLY DEAD?вЂќ Two of her books, The Ponder Heart and The Robber Bridegroom, have been adapted for the stage.Д®udora Welty died on July 23, 2001, at the age of ninety-two. In addition to her work as a writer, Welty published a book of photographs, One Time, One Place (1971), recording her visual impressions of Mississippi in the early thirties.

A collection of essays, The Eye of the Story (1978), was followed by the memoir One WriterвЂ™s Beginnings, which in 1984 became an unexpected best-seller. Her next book, The OptimistвЂ™s Daughter (1972), won the Pulitzer Prize. The novella The Robber Bridegroom was published in 1942 and was followed by other longer works of fiction: Delta Wedding (1946), The Ponder Heart (1954), and, after a hiatus of several years, Losing Battles (1970), which focused new attention on her work. Another collection, Moon Lake, appeared in 1980, as did The Collected Stories. After her college days she returned to Jackson, where she would live permanently.ДЇurther stories were collected in The Wide Net (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), The Bride of the Innisfallen (1955), and a book of stories for children, The Shoe Bird (1964). The appearance of her work in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly established a reputation that was furthered by the publication of her first story collection, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. For all serious daring starts from within.вЂќ She studied at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University, with the intention of pursuing a career in advertising, an idea abandoned in favor of writing after her stories began to be published regularly in the mid-1930s. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. Of her tranquil childhood she wrote: вЂњI am a writer who came of a sheltered life.

Title.Д®udora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATAДЎ.

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