Eudora Welty Influences

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The author that I choose to do research about was Eudora Welty a pretty well-known American writer. The author has written so many books and my personal favorite was her award-winning book “The optimist daughter” written in 1973. In this research, I am going to talk about her main writings and her background such as family her love to books. And on the other hand, I am going to talk about why she is important to American literature even to this day.

During the author Eudora Alice Welty lifespan, she has published more than 40 short stories, 5 novels, collections of essays & reviews, a journal, and 2 major books of photographs taken primarily in the 1930s and 1940s where she worked for the government during the great depression. Eudora Welty was one of the first living writers to have her work collected in the Library of America series, with Stories and Essays and Memoir and complete Novels that she had written.
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I said that the thing that influenced the author was that she and her mother both loved to read, and she remembers when her parents used to read books took her, and another thing that had an influence with her career as a British writer named Elizabeth Bowen. While Eudora Welty was traveling Europe in 1949-1950 she visited Ireland, where she contacted Elizabeth Bowen. The first impact to her career was from her parent they gave her the love for books and the second thing that influenced Eudora Welty was, Elizabeth Bowen was a short story writer and that was the influence she had on Eudora Welty she became a short story writer just like Elizbeth

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