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The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

Pulitzer Prize · 1973 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9780394555874

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1973Winner

About the Author

Eudora WeltyAmerican

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was an American author born in Jackson, Mississippi, renowned for her short stories and novels depicting life in the American South. She gained acclaim with her first short story collection A Curtain of Green (1941) and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist's Daughter (1972), among other honors like the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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