Our Little Store rose right up from the sidewalk standing in a street 1 of family houses, it alone hadn’t any yard in front, any tree or flower bed. As you read, pay attention to the effect Welty’s spatial arrangement of descriptive details has on the dominant impression of the store. Welty’s description of the corner store, taken from an essay in The Eye of the Story about growing up in Jackson, recalls for many readers the neighborhood store in the town or city where they grew up. Welty’s novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973, and in 1999 the Library of Congress published two collec- tions of her work: Welty: Collected Novels and Welty: Collected Essays and Memoirs. Her other best-known works in- clude a collection of essays, The Eye of the Story (1975) her auto- biography, One Writer’s Beginnings (1984) and a collection of book reviews and essays, The Writer’s Eye (1994). The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1982. In 1980, Welty was awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Photographer), she is most often remembered as a master of the short story. Writer of novels, essays, and book reviews,Īmong other genres (as well as a published Green (1941), is a collection of short stories.Īlthough she went on to become a successful Where she lived most of her life and where sheĭied in 2001. Was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi,
One of the most honored and respected writ-Įrs of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty
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