American short story Writer and Novelist, She is noted for her historical works about Southern families. Won Pulitzer for The Optimist's Daughter (1972). 1909-2001 Popularity:
“She was a cosmopolitan woman still expecting to encounter and savor something new and unusual, still filled with the joy of seeing and hearing and writing.”
“would give [Welty] the distance from which to assess a sheltered past and the courage to move beyond the self-consciously clever or openly derivative poems and stories of her youth.”
