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    Photographs

    October 12, 2018
    “A dazzling record of this writer’s unique and special vision” indeed. A thoughtful preface by Reynolds Price and an insightful introductory interview with Eudora Welty frame this powerful collection of Welty’s photographs, most taken for the WPA during the Great Depression, some of her travels, and a few of her friends and family.

    From “Introduction, Eudora Welty and Photography: An Interview”:

    “I never posed anybody—that was on principle. . . . I let my subjects go on with what they were doing and, by framing or cutting and by selection, found what composition rose from that. So, I think that’s a quality that makes them different from those of professionals who were purposefully photographing for an agency, or a cause.” (p. xix)

    “It’s not my nature to be on the other side of the camera. It came about through the circumstances of my being a writer.” (p. xix)

    “I suppose that what made me take the pictures was some irresistible notion that I might cap

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    Eudora Welty

    Major Works

    Photo of Eudora Welty bygd Mark Wilkins, used with permission

    • Photographs (1989)
    • Morgana: Two Stories from ‘The Golden Apples’ (1988)
    • One Writer’s Beginnings (1984) (autobiography)
    • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
    • The Eye of the Story (selected essays and reviews) (1978)
    • The Optimist’s Daughter (novel) (1972)
    • One Time, One Place: MS in the Depression: A Snapshot skiva (1971)
    • “A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car”(poem) (1970)
    • Losing Battles (novel) (1970)
    • A Sweet Devouring (nonfiction) (1969)
    • Thirteen Stories (1965)
    • The Shoe Bird (juvenile) (1964)
    • “Place in Fiction” (lectures for conference on American Studies in Cambridge, England) (1957)
    • The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories (1955)
    • The Ponder Heart (novel) (1954)
    • Selected Stories (1953)
    • The Golden Apples (1949)
    • Music from Spain, Levee Press (1948)
    • Delta Wedding (novel) (1946)
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      Eudora Welty

      American writer and photographer (1909–2001)

      Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) 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 the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.

      Biography

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      Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909, the daughter of Christian Webb Welty (1879–1931) and Mary Chestina (Andrews) Welty (1883–1966). She grew up with younger brothers Edward Jefferson and Walter Andrews.[1] Her mother was a schoolteacher. Her family were members of the Methodist church.[2] Her childhood home is still stan