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“I
am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A
sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all
serious daring starts from within."
Born April 13, 1909, Eudora Welty was a life-long
resident of Jackson, Mississippi, and daughter of
parents from the North, (Ohio, and West Virginia).
According to Welty, her parents read avidly and
passionately and were a close-knit, extended family,
she tells us in her autobiographical work,
One
Writer’s Beginnings that her family sheltered
her and protected her from outside forces of all
sorts.
Welty usually wrote about the inhabitants of
rural Mississippi. Her characters are comic,
eccentric, often grotesque, but nonetheless
charming; their reality is augmented by Welty’s wit
and her skill at capturing their dialect and speech
patterns. She never married. When asked why, she
said in a New York Times interview, “it never came
up.”
Though she traveled extensively and lectured all
across the country, she always called Jackson home.
She cared for her parents’ there and lived there,
alone, after their passing. Eudora Welty died in
Jackson on July 23, 2001.
See our
book review on The Optimist's Daughter.
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