Selected Works by Eudora Welty

Short Story Collections

• A Curtain of Green. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941.
  Stories include:

• “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies”

• “A Piece of News”

• “Petrified Man”

• “The Key”

• “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden”

• “Why I Live at the P.O.”

• “The Whistle”

• “The Hitch-Hikers”

• “A Memory”

• “Clytie”

• “Old Mr. Marblehall”

• “Flowers for Marjorie”

• “A Curtain of Green”

• “A Visit of Charity”

• “Death of a Traveling Salesman”

• “Powerhouse”

• “A Worn Path”

• The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.
  Stories include:

• “No Place For You, My Love”

• “The Burning”

• “The Bride of the Innisfallen”

• “Ladies in Spring”

• “Circe”

• “Kin”

• “Going to Naples”

• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. New York: Harcourt, 1980.
  Stories Include:

• “The Demonstrators,” 608–22

• “Where Is the Voice Coming From?,” 603–07

• The Golden Apples. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
  Stories Include:

• “Shower of Gold”

• “June Recital”

• “Sir Rabbit”

• “Moon Lake”

• “The Whole World Knows”

• “Music from Spain”

• “The Wanderers”

• The Wide Net and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
  Stories Include:

• “First Love”

• “The Wide Net”

• “A Still Moment”

• “Asphodel”

• “The Winds”

• “The Purple Hat”

• “Livvie”

• “At the Landing

Novels

• Delta Wedding. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

•  Losing Battles. New York: Random House, 1970.

•  The Optimist’s Daughter. New York: Random House, 1972.

•  The Ponder Heart. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.

•  The Robber Bridegroom. New York: Doubleday, Doran, and Company, 1942.

•  The Shoe Bird. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1964.

Memoir & Essays

• One Writer’s Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

•  The Eye of the Story. New York: Random House, 1978.

• On Writing. New York: The Modern Library, 2002.

• Occasions: Selected Writings. Ed. Pearl Amelia McHaney. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

•  A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews. Ed. Pearl Amelia McHaney. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

Photography Books

• Country Churchyards. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

•  Eudora Welty as Photographer. Ed. Pearl Amelia McHaney. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

• One Time, One Place. New York: Random House, 1971.

• Photographs. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.

Collected Volumes

• Eudora Welty, Complete Novels. New York: Library of America, 1998.

• Eudora Welty, Stories, Essays, Memoir. New York: Library of America, 1998.

• Eudora Welty’s World: Words on Nature. Ed. Patti Carr Black. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

• Early Escapades. Ed. Patti Carr Black. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

•  Morgana: Two Stories from ‘The Golden Apples’. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

• The First Story. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

•  The Norton Book of Friendship. Ed. Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharp. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1991.

•  Some Notes on River Country. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

• On William Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

• On William Hollingsworth, Jr. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Audio & Video Recordings

• Eudora Welty Reads: “Why I Live at the P.O.,” “Powerhouse,” “Petrified Man,” and Other Stories.
  New York: Caedmon/Harper Audio, 1956, 1998.

• One Writer’s Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Audio, 2005.

• The Optimist’s Daughter. New York: Random House Audio, 1986.

• Welty and the Craft of Writing. DVD + companion CD. Jackson: Eudora Welty Foundation, 2011.

Selected Books About Eudora Welty
(Alphabetized by author for clarity)

• Appel, Alfred. A Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1965.

• Barilleaux, Paul, ed. Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties. Jackson: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2002.

• Binding, Paul. Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer. London: Virago, 1994.

• Black, Patti Carr, ed. Eudora. Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1984.

• Bouton, Reine Dugas, ed. Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008.

• Brown, Carolyn. A Daring Life. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

• Desmond, John, ed. A Still Moment. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978.

• Devlin, Albert J. Eudora Welty’s Chronicle: A Story of Mississippi Life. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1983.
  — ed. Welty, A Life in Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.

• Dollarhide, Louis and Abadie, Ann J. Eudora Welty, A Form of Thanks. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979.

• Gretlund, Jan Nordby and Westarp, Karl-Heinz, eds. The Late Novels of Eudora Welty. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

• Haltom, Susan & Brown, Jane Roy. One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

• Harrison, Suzan. Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1997.

• Johnson, Carol Ann. Eudora Welty, A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1997.

• Kreyling, Michael. Author and Agent. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991.
  — Eudora Welty’s Achievement of Order. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1980.

• Manning, Carol S. With Ears Opening Like Morning Glories. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

• Mark, Rebecca. The Dragon’s Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

• Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty, A Biography. New York: Harcourt, 2005.
  — One Writer’s Imagination. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2002.
  — The Welty Collection: A Guide… Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

• McHaney, Pearl A., ed. The Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  — Writers’ Reflections Upon First Reading Welty. Athens: Hill Street Press, 1999.

• Mortimer, Gail L. Daughter of the Swan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

• Pitavy-Souques, Daniele. La Mort de Méduse. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1992.

• Polk, Noel. Eudora Welty, A Bibliography of Her Work. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

• Pollack, Harriet & Marrs, Suzanne, eds. Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001.

• Prenshaw, Peggy, ed. Conversations with Eudora Welty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
  — Eudora Welty, Critical Essays. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979.
  — More Conversations with Eudora Welty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.

• Schmidt, Peter. The Heart of the Story. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

• Trouard, Dawn, ed. Eye of the Storyteller. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1989.

• Vande Kieft, Ruth. Eudora Welty. Rev. Ed. New York: Twayne, 1987.

• Waldron, Ann. Eudora, A Writer’s Life. New York: Doubleday, 1998.

• Westling, Louise. Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

• Weston, Ruth D. Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1994.