Welty, Eudora
Welty, Eudora ( 1909 – 2001 ),American short story writer and novelist, born in Jackson, Mississippi, her lifelong home. The stories of A Curtain of Green ( 1941 ) derive from her experiences with the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, for which she travelled through her native state photographing inhabitants both black and white and learning ‘a story-teller's truth … the moment in which people reveal themselves’. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom ( 1942 ), is an elaborately worked fairy tale set in the Natchez Trace country c. 1798 . Also historical are the two most remarkable stories in her second collection, The Wide Net ( 1943 ), ‘First Love’ and ‘A Still Moment’: both exhibit intense rapport with place and concern with angles of vision. These also distinguish The Golden Apples ( 1949 ), a series of linked stories that followed her humorous, poetic, but...
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