New York:: Random House,, (1972.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (lower edge of front board slightly bumped, some staining to the dj).. First edition. A seemingly slight story of a young woman who returns from Chicago to her childhood home in Mississippi after the death of her father, and in doing so, she confronts parts of her past and comes to a better understanding of herself - but a story imbued with Welty's artistry. A Pulitzer prize winning novel. 180 pp.

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Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mis-sissippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Her short stories appeared in The Southern Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and other magazines. She lectured at a number of colleges, held the William Allan Neilson professorship at Smith and the Lucy Donnelly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and was a lecturer at the Conference of American Studies at Cambridge University. She worked under grants from the Rockefeller and Merrill foundations and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and held a Guggenheim Fellow-ship. She was given honorary degrees from Smith, the University of Wisconsin, Western College for Women, Denison University, the University of the South at Sewanee, and Millsaps College in Jackson. She also received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr, the Brandeis Medal of Achievement, and the Hollins Medal; her novel The Ponder Heart was awarded the Howells Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eudora Welty died in 2001. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 57245
Title: THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Author: Welty, Eudora
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very good in a good dust jacket (lower edge of front board slightly bumped, some staining to the dj).
Jacket Condition: good
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394480171
ISBN 13: 9780394480176
Publisher: Random House,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (1972.)
Keywords: pulitzer prize, woman author,
Bookseller catalogs: Southern Writers and the South;

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