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4 unusual facts about Eudora Welty


Anne Tyler

In a rare interview with The New York Times, Tyler cited Eudora Welty as a major literary influence: "Reading Eudora Welty when I was growing up showed me that very small things are often really larger than the large things".

Eudora Welty

Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the Welty's Tudor Revival style home, which is now known as the Eudora Welty House.

The book established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights and featured the stories "Why I Live at the P.O.", "Petrified Man", and the frequently anthologized A Worn Path.

Simplicity Pattern

Novelist and short story author Eudora Welty claimed that she used Simplicity Patterns for her short stories, that she would re-use the paper and pin her paragraphs to the paper and rearrange passages for greatest effect.


Bill Morrissey

A good many of his friends were also writers and so when they'd get together the talk would go from rainbow trout to Eudora Welty to Upland hunting ruffed grouse.

David Spielman

Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and James Dickey are a few of the authors Spielman shot for the book.

Hermione Lee

She has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald.

Joe and Beth Krush

Beside collaborating with his wife, Joe Krush illustrated the dustjacket and the interior of The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, published in 1953/1954.

O Street

O Street makes you think of great writers in strange combinations: Dreiser and Welty; Wright and McCullers; Joan Didion and Stephen Crane.

Peggy O'Brien

O'Brien worked with Masterpiece to produce Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection, a series of television adaptations of American novels, including The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Cora Unashamed by Langston Hughes, The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty, A Death in the Family by James Agee, and Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago.


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