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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1940
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • A collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of classic American southern literature.   Combining stories set in the rural south, Eudora Welty’s own special province, and stories with a European locale, which give a ...



  • This collection of short stories of the Mississippi Delta by the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author is “a work of art” (The New York Times Book Review).   Here in Morgana, Mississippi, the young dream of other places; the old can tell you every...



  • “A wonderful tragicomedy” of a Mississippi family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of Delta Wedding (The New York Times). Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County...



  • “I’ve read her Thirteen Stories many times, and I’m always awed by how much comedy, pathos, satire and lyricism she manages to squeeze into her stories.” -- Sue Monk Kidd   A strong sense of place -- in this case Mississippi -- along wi...



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    This Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still fa...



  • The classic short story collection of Southern life by the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of The Optimist’s Daughter.These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the region of the Old N...



  • Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales....



  • The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker).   When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from...



  • With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, this National Book Awardâ€"winning story collection is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature. Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of...






  • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace.   In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi ...




  • This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulit...



  • When Arturo the Parrot, whose job it was to help greet people as they came into The Friendly Shoe Store, picked up and repeated a small boy's disgruntled comment, "Shoes are for the birds!," it certainly changed the course of his life. This is Eud...



  • One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty’s novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In this Library of Am...



  • In this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty. Of her own work, she wrote: “What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, ...



  • In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered "Why I Live at the P.O.," the spont...





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Award-Winning Books by Eudora Welty

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1983 National Book Award -- Fiction (Paperback)
The Optimist's Daughter
1973 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eudora Welty has published 18 books.

Eudora Welty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Moon Lake, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Eudora Welty, The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories, was published in June 1940.

No. Eudora Welty does not write books in series.