The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1980 short story collection by Eudora Welty
9780151189946 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 the 1983 National Book Award for Paperback Fiction.[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.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews indicated Welty's "famous tales of Southern small-town life have only become more impressive with time," concluding that The Collected Stories are "a welcome gathering of an important writer's short fiction—some of which is her very best work of all".[2]
References
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| 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 | ||
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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)
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