As per our current Database, Eudora Welty has been died on Jul 23, 2001 (age 92).
When Eudora Welty die, Eudora Welty was 92 years old.
| Popular As | Eudora Welty |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 92 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 13, 1909 (Jackson, MS) |
| Birthday | April 13 |
| Town/City | Jackson, MS |
| Nationality | MS |
Eudora Welty’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Eudora Welty was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Mississippi-born author whose Southern-themed novel, The Optimist's Daughter, received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is also known for A Worn Path (1940), The Wide Net (1943), and other short stories and short story collections.
She studied English literature at the University of Wisconsin and later graduated from Columbia University with a degree in advertising. After publishing her short story collection, A Curtain of Green, she secured employment with The New York Times Review of Books.
Her literary work highlights the complexities of human relationships and the psychological significance of place.
She and her two younger brothers were raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Her schoolteacher mother, Mary Andrews Welty, encouraged her love of reading and writing.
She and Playwright Tennessee Williams are both important 20th-century Southern authors.
