Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
Autor de La hija del optimista
Sobre El Autor
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and at the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 1930 to study advertising at the Columbia University business school. After her mostrar más father's death, she moved back to Jackson in 1931. She held various jobs on local newspapers and at a radio station before becoming a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. Travelling through the state of Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the great depression and resulted in a series of photographs, which were exhibited in a one-women show in New York in 1936 and were eventually published as One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression in 1971. She stopped working for the WPA in 1936. Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Eudora Welty
Obras de Eudora Welty
La novia del bandido / Eudora Welty ; traducción: Javier Fernández de Castro ; ilustraciones: Javier de Horna (1942) 506 copias, 15 reseñas
Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The… (1998) 494 copias, 4 reseñas
Becoming a Writer, On Becoming a Novelist, One Writer's Beginnings (1993) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
On Short Stories 4 copias
Bye-Bye, Brevoort: A One-Act Play 2 copias
The Short Stories of Eudora Welty 2 copias
Rare Selected Stories of Eudora Welty / 1943 - NY: Modern Library, 1943 [Hardcover] Welty, Eudora 2 copias
Atlantic Monthly 2 copias
Powerhouse 2 copias
Eudora Welty Reads: Why I Live at the P.O. Powerhouse, Petrified Man and Other of Her Stories/Audio Cassettes (1992) 2 copias
Os Melhores Contos 2 copias
Death of a Traveling Salesman 2 copias
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty 1 copia
Eudora Welty On Short Stories 1 copia
Złote jabłka 1 copia
The Ponder Heart. Review Copy. 1 copia
A Writer's Life 1 copia
A Visit of Charity 1 copia
The Jackson Cookbook 1 copia
The Demonstrators [short story] 1 copia
Kella, the Outcast Indian Maiden 1 copia
The Little Store 1 copia
Four Photographs 1 copia
Place in Fiction 1 copia
Welty, Eudora Archive 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
Aptal İncir Ağacı 1 copia
The Essential Welty 1 copia
Eudora Welty-member choice 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 946 copias, 7 reseñas
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 465 copias, 4 reseñas
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, Revised & Updated Edition (1995) — Contribuidor — 414 copias, 7 reseñas
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducción; Contribuidor — 385 copias, 3 reseñas
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contribuidor — 377 copias, 2 reseñas
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Contribuidor — 372 copias, 18 reseñas
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 187 copias, 1 reseña
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contribuidor — 144 copias, 1 reseña
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 136 copias, 1 reseña
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 124 copias, 3 reseñas
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 75 copias
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 copias, 1 reseña
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuidor — 24 copias, 5 reseñas
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias, 1 reseña
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Welty, Eudora Alice
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1909-04-13
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2001-07-23
- Lugar de sepultura
- Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Educación
- Mississippi State College for Women (Mississippi University for Women)
University of Wisconsin (BA|1929)
Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1930-31) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer
photographer
publicity agent
reporter
lecturer (mostrar todos 7)
teacher - Relaciones
- Porter, Katherine Anne (friend)
Aswell, Mary Louise (friend|correspondent) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1952])
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Works Progress Administration
The New York Times
Harvard University (lecturer)
Junior League of Jackson (mostrar todos 7)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
National Medal of Arts (1986)
National Book Foundation Medal (1991)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (1991)
Rea Award for the Short Story (1992)
PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story (1992) (mostrar todos 20)
Charles Frankel Prize (1993)
Distinguished Alumni Award (American Association of State Colleges and Universities ∙ 1993)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1987)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1991)
Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (1996)
America Award (2000)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1972)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1970)
National Medal for Literature (1980)
Common Wealth Award (1984)
Order of the South
National Women's Hall of Fame (2000)
National Humanities Medal (1992)
First living author published in the Library of America series
Miembros
Debates
Delta Wedding Group Read - Discussion Thread en 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (noviembre 2022)
October 2014: Eudora Welty en Monthly Author Reads (octubre 2014)
Eudora Welty- American Author Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (julio 2014)
Reseñas
El corazón de los Ponder por Eudora Welty
Lo malo de Daniel Ponder es que, además de rico, es un hombre enfermizamente generoso. Cuando le da uno de sus arranques y se pone a regalar cosas, no hay quien lo pare, ni siquiera Edna, su sobrina. Es ella la que cuenta su historia, que alcanza su punto culminante cuando tío Daniel, ese pedazo de pan al que adoran todos los vecinos del pueblo, es acusado nada menos que de haber causado la muerte de su segunda esposa.
Laurel McKelva es una mujer de mediana edad que viaja a Nueva Orleans para hacerse cargo de su padre, un juez retirado que ha de someterse a una operación quirúrgica. El juez no logra recuperarse, y muere lentamente. Será entonces cuando Laurel emprenda un largo viaje de regreso a su hogar familiar en Mount Salus, Mississippi, llevando consigo el cuerpo de su padre, y siempre vigilada por la segunda esposa de éste, Fay, una mujer orgullosa y más joven que Laurel. En la enorme casa, rodeada de sus antiguos conocidos y de las paredes que la vieron crecer, Laurel ha de enfrentarse a los fantasmas de su juventud y a las deudas del pasado.… (más)
Narra el encuentro de tres generaciones de excéntricos descendientes de la abuela Granny Vaughn, que se reúnen en su vieja casa de Mississippi para celebrar su noventa cumpleaños en los tiempos más duros de la Depreseión. El invitado de honor será el nieto preferido de la abuela Vaughn, Jack Renfro, quien, por no perderse la celebración, se ha escapado de la cárcel de donde estaba previsto que lo liberaran al día siguiente.
Esta novela fue premio Pulitzer en 1972. vuelve a Mississippi debido a la enfermedad ocular de su padre el juez McKelva recientemente casado con Fay, una mujer más joven que la propia hija.
A partir de este entorno, la autora desarrolla un nudo de relaciones y un viaje de introspección de la protagonista, con toda una serie de personajes sureños.
Absolutamente recomendable
A partir de este entorno, la autora desarrolla un nudo de relaciones y un viaje de introspección de la protagonista, con toda una serie de personajes sureños.
Absolutamente recomendable
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