[2] Baptist Medical Center, Jackson, MS.
Father: Christian Webb Welty (insurance executive, b. 1879, d. 1931)
Mother: Chestina Andrews (b. 1883, d. 1966)
Brother: Edward Jefferson Welty
Brother: Walter Andrews Welty
High School: Central High School, Jackson, MS (1925)
University: Mississippi State College for Women
University: BA, University of Wisconsin (1929)
University: Columbia University
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1972
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973 for The Optimist's Daughter
National Book Award for Fiction 1983 for The Collected Stories
National Women's Hall of Fame 2000
Edgar Allan Poe Award Raven Award (1985)
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980
French Legion of Honor 1996
Guggenheim Fellowship 1942
Guggenheim Fellowship 1949
National Medal of Arts 1986
Author of books:
A Curtain of Green (1941, short stories)
The Robber Bridegroom (1942, novel)
The Wide Net: And Other Stories (1943, short stories)
Delta Wedding (1946, novel)
The Golden Apples (1949, short stories)
The Ponder Heart (1954, novel)
The Bride of the Innisfallen: And Other Stories (1955, short stories)
Thirteen Stories (1965, short stories)
Losing Battles (1970, novel)
The Optimist's Daughter (1972, novel)
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews (1978, short story)
Collected Stories (1980, short stories)
One Writer's Beginnings (1984, memoir)
AKA Eudora Alice Welty