The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

First edition cover

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 a 1983 U.S. National Book Award.^[1]^{[lower-alpha 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.

Notes

↑ 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.

References

↑ "National Book Awards - 1983". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With essay by Robin Black from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

Awards
Preceded by Rabbit is Rich John Updike	National Book Award for Fiction 1983 With: The Color Purple Alice Walker	Succeeded by Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories Ellen Gilchrist
Preceded by So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell

National Book Award for Fiction (1975–1999)

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975) J R by William Gaddis (1976) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977) Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979) Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980) Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983) Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986) Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987) Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988) Spartina by John Casey (1989) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) Mating by Norman Rush (1991) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993) A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995) Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998) Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024)

Eudora Welty

Novels	The Robber Bridegroom (1942) Delta Wedding (1946) The Ponder Heart (1953) The Shoe Bird (1964) Losing Battles (1970) The Optimist's Daughter (1972)

Short stories	"A Worn Path" (1940) "Why I Live at the P.O." (1941) "Music from Spain" (1948)

Short story collections	A Curtain of Green (1941) The Golden Apples (1949) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)

Non-fiction	One Writer's Beginnings (1984)

Related	Eudora Welty House Fellowship of Southern Writers

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