Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty 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 numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.

13 April 1909

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Anita Cerquetti • Christie brothers • Christina of Holstein-Gottorp • Danie Mellor • Davis Love III • György Lukács • Hunter Pence • Jesuits • John Cameron (footballer, born 1872) • John W. Davis • Josephine Butler • Josh Reynolds (rugby league) • Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr • Michael Stuart Brown • Olga Tañón • Oswald Bruce Cooper • Philip Norman (author) • Pierre Jélyotte • Rae Armantrout • Rae Johnstone • Ray Lyman Wilbur • Ron Perlman • Rosemary Haughton • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore)

Born in the same month (April 1909): Abner Biberman • Albert R. Broccoli • Arthur Võõbus • F. E. McWilliam • Giacomo Gentilomo • Indro Montanelli • John Fante • Juliana of the Netherlands • Károly Sós • Lim Bo Seng • Marianne Hoppe • Rita Levi-Montalcini • Robert Charroux • Robert Edison Fulton Jr. • Robert Helpmann • Spyros Markezinis • Tom Ewell • William Pereira