http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/browse?tags=Literature&output=atom <![CDATA[Georgetown Portraits]]> 2019-01-14T18:05:52-05:00 Omeka http://portraits.georgetown.edu/items/show/31 <![CDATA[Eudora Alice Welty]]> Writer

Southern novelist and photographer Eudora Welty is famed for her portrayals of the American South. She earned a Pulitzer Prize for her 1973 novel The Optimist’s Daughter. Welty believed that the artist must look squarely at the mysteries of human experience without trying to resolve them. Toni Morrison praised Welty for her portrayals of “black people….[without] patronizing or romanticizing” (EudoraWelty.org). Welty’s 1984 autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, was a national bestseller, and she was the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series. Welty was awarded both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor.]]> 2011-11-18T11:56:47-05:00

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Eudora Alice Welty

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April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001
Writer

Southern novelist and photographer Eudora Welty is famed for her portrayals of the American South. She earned a Pulitzer Prize for her 1973 novel The Optimist’s Daughter. Welty believed that the artist must look squarely at the mysteries of human experience without trying to resolve them. Toni Morrison praised Welty for her portrayals of “black people….[without] patronizing or romanticizing” (EudoraWelty.org). Welty’s 1984 autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, was a national bestseller, and she was the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series. Welty was awarded both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor.
There is a portrait of Eudora Welty in the National Portrait Gallery's "The 20th Century Americans: 1950-1980" collection.

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Welty

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