Essay On Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909, Jackson, Mississippi. Her father's name is Christian Welty, and her mother's name was Chestina Welty. She has two brothers named Edward Welty and Walter Welty. Welty grew up in a house full of books. Her mother gave her the passion of reading and writing. Eudora went to Davis Elementary School. She attended and graduated from Jackson's Central High School. Eudora had graduated from the University of Wisconsin and studied business for a year at Columbia University. Eudora earned her Bachelors degree. She also attended Mississippi University for Women. Eudora was a short story writer, novelist, and photographer. Her major themes of her books extend beyond the south-loneliness, the pain of growing up, and the for people to understand themselves. Eudora Welty grew up during the Great Depression. She was able to travel around Mississippi taking pictures of people during the Great Deppression. " Endured series of misfortunes with stoicism and forbearance." (The New York Times, Prose, 2005). Eudora Welty faced several struggles in her life such as the lose of family and having a hard time finding a job.

A struggle that Eudora Welty faced was the lose of family members. The first member of the family that died was her brother. The brother was born before all the other brothers and Eudora. The baby's name was Christian Welty, the same name of his father, and he lived only fifteen months. In 1924, the next family member who died was Eudoras sister who was stillborn. To be stillborn is to be born dead. In 1931, Christian Welty dies of leukemia. Eudora saw her father die during a blood transfution as her mother layed beside him. In 1957, her brother Walter dies at the...

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...grapher. Some of the short story's/ novels are A Curtain of Green, The Robber Bridgegroom, The Wide Net, The Ponder Heart, The Golden Apples, Delta Wedding, The Bride of the Innisfallen, Lossing battles, and The Optimist's daughter. She got a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist's Daughter. She also received the National Medal for Literature. Eudora had a relationship with a man with John Robinson, but he was appearently homosexual. A rumor spread that Eudora was possibly a lesbian.(The Washington Post, Yardley, 2005) She never married. ''never came up.'' (New York Times, 2014). Eudora Welty died July 23, 2001, from cardio-pulmonary failure at the age of ninety two. Cardiopulmonary is a heart disease were your heart can not pump enough blood to the rest of your body. She returned to the house she grew up in, and continued living there until her death.