Eudora Welty
/juˌdɔːrə ˈwelti/
/juˌdɔːrə ˈwelti/
- (1909-2001) a US writer of novels and short stories about her home state of Mississippi and the US South. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist's Daughter (1972) and her collections of stories include The Golden Apples (1949).