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

Other writers liberated by Ms. Allen include Horton Foote and Eudora Welty, who were similarly cast out for being “regional” writers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Julia Eichelberger, a Welty scholar and the editor of this collection, notes that the first extant letter between Lyell and Welty is from 1931, after they’d been at Columbia a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

“Here was a real writer with an editor and an agent,” Gilchrist said of Welty.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

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 • Jan. 25, 2024

“I said I’d found the Welty we discussed. I wish you had called first, Leon. I don’t know what else to tell you.”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman