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The Optimist's Daughter
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The Optimist's Daughter Paperback - 1990

by Welty, Eudora

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  • Title The Optimist's Daughter
  • Author Welty, Eudora
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-08-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 581QRT0006FU_ns
  • ISBN 9780679728832 / 067972883X
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.25 x 0.53 in (20.24 x 13.34 x 1.35 cm)
  • Reading level 880
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040630
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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.


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From the jacket flap

This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.

About the author

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.