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- Birth nameEudora Alice Welty
- Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She was a writer, known for American Playhouse (1980), The Frost Whistle (2008) and The Purple Hat (2010). She died on July 23, 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
- The email program Eudora is named after her.
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1929.
- Her short story "Why I Live at the P.O". is a staple of college literature anthologies.
- Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter".
- Was a writer for WJDX-AM in the 1920s.
- On solitude: Surely even those immune from the world...need the touch of another.
- On mothering: Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady: It's a pulse.
- On childhood: Setting out in the world, a child feels so indelible. He only comes to find out later that it's all the others along his way who are making themselves indelible to him.
- On writing: A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
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