A portrait of family life in the American South during the 1920s, first published in 1946. From the author of "The Optimist's Daughter", which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Introduced by Michael Schmidt.
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Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.Michael Schmidt is the founder of Carcanet Press and the general editor of PN Review. He was until recently Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. He has also been Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge.
