Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty fue una autora estadounidense ampliamente aclamada, reconocida principalmente por sus historias cortas y novelas que retrataban el Sur de los Estados Unidos. Nació el 13 de abril de 1909 en Jackson, Misisipi, donde pasó una gran parte de su vida. Welty fue hija de Mary Chestina y Christian Webb Welty y creció junto a sus dos hermanos menores, Walter Andrews y Edward Jefferson. Su madre era maestra y la familia era miembro de la iglesia metodista.

Welty estudió en el Mississippi State College for Women (ahora llamado Mississippi University for Women), la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison y la Columbia Business School. Mientras estudiaba en la Universidad de Columbia, era asidua del café Romany Marie en 1930. Sin embargo, la verdadera pasión de Welty era la literatura, y pronto dedicó su energía a escribir ficción. Su primer cuento corto, "La muerte de un vendedor ambulante", fue publicado en 1936, y su trabajo llamó la atención de Katherine Anne Porter, quien se convirtió en mentora suya. El primer libro de relatos cortos de Welty, A Curtain of Green, fue publicado en 1941 y estableció su reputación como una de las voces literarias líderes de Estados Unidos.

Además de su escritura, Welty también trabajó como fotógrafa para los Programas de Progreso de la Administración durante la década de 1930. Este trabajo la llevó por todo el estado de Misisipi, donde fotografió a personas de todas las clases socioeconómicas. Las colecciones de sus fotografías incluyen "One Time, One Place" y "Photographs".

El trabajo de Welty recibió numerosos premios y reconocimientos a lo largo de su carrera. En 1973, ganó el Premio Pulitzer por su novela, The Optimist's Daughter. También fue la primera autora viva en tener sus obras publicadas por la Biblioteca de América. En 1992, Welty recibió el Premio Rea por su contribución a la vida al cuento estadounidense. También fue miembro fundadora de la Fellowship of Southern Writers, establecida en 1987. A pesar de su fama, Welty siguió siendo una figura común en su ciudad natal de Jackson, Misisipi, donde vivió cerca de Belhaven College. Murió el 23 de julio de 2001 a los 92 años y fue enterrada en el Cementerio Greenwood en Jackson.
Novelas independientes
# Título Año
1 The Robber Bridegroom 1942
2 Delta Wedding 1946
3 The Ponder Heart 1954
4 Losing Battles 1970
5 The Optimist's Daughter 1972
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
# Título Año
1 Moon Lake 2011
2 Moon Lake and Other Stories 1980
Colecciones
# Título Año
1 The Bride of the Innisfallen 1940
2 The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories 1940
3 Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories 1941
4 Why I Live at the P.O. 1941
5 A Curtain of Green 1941
6 The Wide Net 1943
7 The Golden Apples 1949
8 Thirteen Stories 1965
9 Selected Stories of Eudora Welty 1977
10 Moon Lake and Other Stories 1980
11 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 1980
12 Stories, Essays & Memoir 1998
's Chapbooks
# Título Año
1 The Shoe Bird 1964
Libros de no ficción
# Título Año
1 One Time, One Place 1971
2 The Eye of the Story 1978
3 One Writer's Beginnings 1983
4 Photographs 1989
5 Some Notes on River Country 2003
6 On William Faulkner 2003
7 Occasions 2009
A Harvest/Hbj Book Books (with Thomas Merton)
# Título Año
1 A Curtain of Green 1941
2 The Robber Bridegroom 1942
3 Delta Wedding 1946
4 The Waters of Siloe (By: Thomas Merton) 1949
5 My $50,000 Year at the Races 1980
A Harvest/Hbj Book Books
# Título Año
1 A Curtain of Green 1941
2 The Robber Bridegroom 1942
3 Delta Wedding 1946
4 Waters of Siloe 1976
5 The Waters of Siloe 1979
6 My $50,000 Year at the Races 1980
Selected Shorts Books
# Título Año
1 For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space) 1993
2 Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey) 1998
3 Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn) 2006
4 Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space) 2007
5 Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space) 2007
6 Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space) 2007
7 Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space) 2007
8 Pets! (By: Symphony Space) 2007
9 Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen) 2007
10 Family Matters (By: Symphony Space) 2007
11 Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space) 2008
12 A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury, T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks) 2009
13 The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space) 2009
14 Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston) 2009
15 American Classics (With: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space) 2010
16 New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space) 2011
17 Poe! (By: Symphony Space) 2012
Literary Conversations Books
# Título Año
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
Eudora Welty Anthologies
# Título Año
1 Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954
2 Points of View 1956
3 Women and Fiction 1975
4 In the Looking Glass 1977
5 Stories of the Modern South 1977
6 Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 1983
7 Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews 1989
8 Magical Realist Fiction 1984
9 Women Writers at Work 1989
10 Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality 1991
11 Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories 1990
12 Cries of the Spirit 1991
13 Growing Up in the South 1991
14 The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales 1992
15 The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992
16 The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992
17 Writing Women's Lives 1994
18 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994
19 Downhome 1995
20 Mistresses of the Dark 1998
21 The Eloquent Essay 2000
22 The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000
23 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000
24 The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004
25 The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007
26 The Civil Rights Reader 2009
27 Granta 115: The F Word 2011