Welty

American  

[wel-tee] / ˈwɛl ti /

noun

1. Eudora 1909–2001, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.

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Welty British  

/ ˈwɛltɪ /

noun

1. Eudora. 1909–2001, US novelist and short-story writer, noted for her depiction of life in the Mississippi delta. Her novels include Delta Wedding (1946) and The Optimist's Daughter (1972)

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Example Sentences

Welty’s novels and short stories are still celebrated for their richly described landscapes of her native South and their equally vivid view of the inner lives of her characters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gilchrist said she was comfortable reading William Faulkner and Eudora Welty because their characters spoke in the Southern cadence that was familiar to her.

From Seattle Times

While his early novels paid fealty to the expansive, twisty prose of Faulkner and the unsettling Southern gothic of O’Connor, his poetry and later novels moved toward the elegiac sentiments and literary precision of Welty.

From New York Times

“Just a great love story,” Welty says of the film before coming across her “favorite movie of all time,” Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

From Seattle Times

“Place is what sets your characters to scale,” Welty once said.

From Los Angeles Times