There is an ambition about her book that I like, one that is deeper than the ambition to declare wonder aloud. It is this intensity of experience that she seems to live in order to declare.

That she will spend her days in solitude tramping the Roanoke creek banks and the Blue Ridge mountainside in search of herself.ДЄ reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled. Took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw 'the tree with lights in it.''' Annie Dillard had found the central metaphor for her book it is the vision, the spiritual conception, A blind child the author happened to read about saw for the first time after cataracts had been removed from her eyes. The book is a form of meditation, written with a headlong urgency, about seeing.

'No, but thank you for inviting me to the party.Am no scientist,'' says Annie Dillard, ''but a poet and a walker with a background in theology and a penchant for quirkyДЇacts.'' In ''Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'' she offers ''what Thoreau called 'a meteorological journal of the mind.''' Her rumored last words, when the doctor asked her if he could do anything for her on her deathbed. Her final collection was called вЂњCountry Churchyards,вЂќ featuring local cemeteries in MS.Д¦ Literary Awards 1972: Gold Medal вЂ“ National Institute of Arts & Letters 1973: Pulitzer Prize for The OptimistвЂ™s Daughter 1979: American Book Award вЂ“ National Medal for Literature 1980: Medal of Freedom awarded by President Jimmy Carter 1986: National Endowment for the Arts Medal 1991 National Book Awards: Eudora Welty, recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Welty was awarded more than a dozen honorary doctorates from such prestigious universities such as Princeton.Д§ Welty became a leading American writer of the 20th century. In 1921 Welty won $25 for writing a winning jingle contest promoters said they вЂњhope she continued to improve in poetry to such an extent as to win fame.вЂќ Welty was a renown photographer. Her 1984 book One WriterвЂ™s Beginnings has inspired countless writers young & old. The absolute contact between hand and the earth, the intimacy of it, that is the instinct of a gardener.вЂќДҐ Interesting Facts Several of WeltyвЂ™s stories have been made into movies, such as вЂњA Worn Path,вЂќ and The Ponder Heart. We used to get down on our hands and knees. вЂњI think that people have lost the working garden. Garden : Welty worked at her motherвЂ™s side planting, watering, and weeding.

Today it is a National Historic Landmark on Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi. of Wisconsin, after transferring from Mississippi State College for Women вЂ“ marketing major 1930: enrolled in Columbia School of Business Depression caused hardships forcing her to return to MS the next year 1931: Publicist for government agency вЂ“ traveled the state interviewing & photographing people this experience inspired her to writeД¤ Home вЂ¦home of Eudora Welty, from, and the home where she wrote almost all of her fiction and essays. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.'ДЈ Education & Work 1929: graduated from the Univ. вЂњThrough travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.вЂќДў Welty is known for: capturing life in the Deep SouthД¬reating vivid portraits of the landscape conveying the shared attitudes of the people confronting hardships/sorrows of life in poor, rural areas butвЂ¦ always keeping a positive, optimistic outlook 'Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Presentation on theme: 'Eudora Welty Born: Jackson, MS'- Presentation transcript:ДЎ Eudora Welty 1909-2001 Born: Jackson, MS

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