Governors Association, and American Association of University Women. She received the Freedom Medal of HonorДЇrom Presidents Carter and Reagan, as well as Lifetime AchievementДЄwards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Henry Prizes, the National BookДЇoundation Medal, and the American Academy of Arts' and Letters' President, Miss Welty received numerous literary awards during Her stories are primarily set in Mississippi,ДЄnd she had a special knack for writing about the people and places of Her 1984 autobiography, One Writer's Beginnings, was a New Optimist's Daughter, published in 1972, earned Miss Welty the 1973ДЇiction. Story, ``Death of a Traveling Salesman'', which appeared in 1936. Miss Welty began her career with the publishing of her first short Live and write in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi, She returned to her native state in 1923 to Published in the school newspaper, and went on to graduate from the She attended Mississippi University for Women, where she was first The Jackson library with her mother that began her love for literature. Mississippi, and attended public schools.

Miss Welty is considered by many literary authorities to be the Many people do not know that she was also an Recognition for her work which helped make Southern writing a focus inДў0th century literature. The relationships of her native south, and she received worldwide Miss Welty had a gift in telling of the traditions and Miss Welty was best knownДЇor her short stories and the way they captured the life of theДЄmerican South. Mississippi, passed away at the age of 92.

President, yesterday, writer Eudora Welty, a native of Government Publishing Office, EUDORA WELTY: REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF A GREAT SOUTHERN WRITER Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10 - EUDORA WELTY: REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF A GREAT SOUTHERN WRITER

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