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Welty, Eudora

(Encyclopedia) Welty, Eudora, 1909–2001, American author, b. Jackson, Miss., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1929. One of the important American regional writers of the 20th cent. and one of the finest…

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty lived her life in Jackson, Mississippi and became famous for her stories from the heart of the American South. Her early stories and essays were published in the New Yorker and other…

Eudora Welty 2001 Deaths

Eudora WeltyAge: 92 Pulitzer Prize–winning writer whose lyrical short stories, which were usually set in the South, centered on families and their attendant issues, squabbles, and…

Macdonald, Ross

(Encyclopedia) Macdonald, Ross, pseud. of Kenneth Millar, 1915–83, American novelist, b. Los Gatos, Calif. He was educated in Canada and at the Univ. of Michigan. Macdonald's mystery novels center on…

Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr., 1908–2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a…

Jackson

(Encyclopedia) Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. The city's chief…

Rashidi Wheeler 2001 Deaths

Rashidi WheelerAge: 22 Northwestern University senior starting safety, who died following conditioning drills at the school; started all 12 games and had 88 tackles, a fumble recovery and…

Tim Weigel 2001 Deaths

Tim WeigelAge: 56 a 30-year veteran of Chicago's sports' airwaves; started his career at the defunct Chicago Daily News in 1971 and also worked for the Chicago Sun Times; after years at WLS-…

1983 National Book Awards

Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverIsak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Judith ThurmanPaperbackNathaniel Hawthorne in His Time, James R. MellowChildren's FictionHardcoverHomesick: My Own…

William Maxwell 2000 Deaths

William MaxwellAge: 91 writer and legendary New Yorker fiction editor who gracefully polished the work of such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Eudora Welty. His…