Welty, Eudora Alice (1909–2001)
US novelist and short-story writer. Her works reflect life in the American South and are notable for their creation of character and accurate rendition of local dialect. Her novels include Delta Wedding (1946), Losing Battles (1970), and The Optimist's Daughter (1972). Her Collected Stories appeared in 1982.
| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty appeared in 1980. The autobiographical work One Writer's Beginnings (1984) is a warm recounting of the people, places, and incidents that influenced Welty's work. |
