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Life of Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi,
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Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi, grew up in a prosperous home with her two younger brothers. Her parent was an Ohio-born insurance man and a strong-minded West Virginian schoolteacher, who settled in Jackson in 1904 after their marriage. Eudora's school life began attending a white-only school. As born and brought up under strict supervision and influence, at the age of sixteen she somehow convinced her parents to attend college far enough from home, to Columbus, Mississippi and then to Madison, Wisconsin. After graduation in 1930, she moved to New York to attend Columbia Business School. While living in New York, Harlem Jazz theatre occupied her more than her class did. She returned to Jackson in 1931 following her father's untimely death, where she worked for a local radio station and also wrote articles for a newspaper. Later she worked as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration in 1935. As a part of her job she traveled by car or by bus through the depth of Mississippi, and saw poverty of black and white people, which she had never imagined before. This time photography became her passion. She was somehow influenced by black and Southern culture as seen in her novel or short story called "Some Notes on River Country" or "A Worn Path".
Eudora Welty's writing process began as she started using experience from her job as material for short stories. Welty knew that she was starting something new and she
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did not expect success to come without a struggle. In June 1936 her story "Death of a Traveling Salesman" was published in the Journal Manuscript. Within the next two years her work had appeared in prestigious publication as Atlantic Monthly and the Southern Review. Many readers liked her collection of short stories in "A Curtain of Green" and predicted that if would lead her to greater achievements as a successful writer. Two years later her two short stories "The Wide Net" and "Other...
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