Journals began accepting Welty's stories in the early 1930s and her first collection, A Curtain of Green, was published in 1941. It's a portrait that tells nothing of the cryptic brilliance of her best fiction.īut reputations like these can blockade a writer's work rather than promote it, which I think might be the case with Welty.
Long before her death in 2001, aged 92, she had become the grande dame of American letters: an infallibly polite and humorous southern lady who still lived in the same house, in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was born. Eudora Welty won eight O Henry awards and the Pulitzer prize, was awarded the Légion d'honneur, became the first living author to have her works published in a Library of America edition, and was long considered a likely recipient of the Nobel.
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