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A Daring Life : A Biography of Eudora Welty by Brown, Carolyn J. is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Daring Life : A Biography of Eudora Welty about?
Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today s greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909 2001). Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. This biography follows this twentieth-century path while telling Welty s story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life. The chapters that follow focus on her education and her most important teachers; her life during the Depression and how her career, just getting started, is interrupted by World War II; and how she shows independence and courage through her writing during the turbulent civil rights period of the 1950s and 1960s. After years of care giving and the deaths of all her immediate family members, Welty persevered and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist s Daughter. Her popularity soared in the 1980s after she delivered the three William E. Massey Lectures to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard, and the lectures were later published as One Writer s Beginnings
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- Author
- Brown, Carolyn J.
- Publisher
- Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781617032950
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (92 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14