The Optimist's Daughter
by Welty, Eudora
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine /Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0965374718
- ISBN 13
- 9780965374712
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Synopsis
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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- mompopsbooks (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11893
- Title
- The Optimist's Daughter
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Hardcover Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0965374718
- ISBN 13
- 9780965374712
- Publisher
- BOMC
- Place of Publication
- NYNY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- WELTY, EUDORA-LITERATURE
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