Welty, Eudora
Welty, Eudora( 1909–2001),Mississippi author, whose books include A Curtain of Green (1941), The Wide Net (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), The Bride of the Innisfallen (1955), and Moon Lake (1980), stories set mainly in her region and depicting characters, often grotesque, who fail to know themselves or their neighbors; and The Shoe Bird (1964), tales for children. Her longer works include The Robber Bridegroom (1942), a novelette combining fairy tale and ballad form, telling of the wooing of Rosamond, the daughter of a Mississippi planter, by a bandit chief; Delta Wedding (1946), a novel subtly revealing the sensibilities of a modern plantation family; The Ponder Heart (1954), a comic fantasy of small-town Mississippi life, dramatized (1957) by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields; Losing Battles (1970), depicting a family of Mississippians trying to preserve their way of...
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