Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South.

When did Eudora Welty start writing?

Welty's first short story was published in 1936, and thereafter her work began to appear regularly, initially in little magazines such as the Southern Review and later in major periodicals such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker.

What was Eudora Welty's first short story?

Welty's first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman", was published in 1936. Her work attracted the attention of author Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941.