The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
First edition cover
AuthorEudora Welty
PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich
Publication date
January 1, 1980
AwardNational Book Award for Fiction (Paperback) (1983)
ISBN9780151189946

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is a collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1980. Its first paperback edition (Harvest Books) won the 1983 National Book Award for Paperback Fiction.[1]

Collected Stories demonstrates the author's ability to write from the point of view of diverse characters ranging from Aaron Burr to a deaf black servant boy, a traveling salesman, eccentric Southern matrons, and countless others.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews indicated Welty's "famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time," concluding that The Collected Stories are "a welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction—some of which is her very best work of all".[2]

References

  1. ^ "National Book Awards 1983". National Book Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  2. ^ "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty". Kirkus Reviews. 1980-10-01. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
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