''The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty'' is a collection of short stories by

Eudora Welty Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel '' The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerou ...

, first published by

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in 1980. Its first paperback edition ( Harvest Books) won a 1983 U.S. National Book Award."National Book Awards - 1983"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With essay by Robin Black from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Welty's ''Collected Works'' won the 1983 award for paperback Fiction.
From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one. ''Collected Stories'' demonstrates the author's ability to write from the point of view of diverse characters ranging from

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to a deaf black servant boy, a traveling salesman, eccentric Southern matrons, and countless others.

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1982 short story collections Short story collections by Eudora Welty National Book Award for Fiction winning works Houghton Mifflin books {{1980s-story-collection-stub