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    The Optimist's Daughter

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

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    Author Eudora Welty
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    On sale Aug 11, 1990 | 192 Pages | 9780679728832
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

    The Optimist's Daughter    , the "best book Eudora Welty has ever written" (The New York Times Book Review), is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young Southern woman who returns to New Orleans years later because of her dying father. After his death, she and her stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
    One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. She died in 2001. View titles by Eudora Welty
    • WINNER | 1973
      Pulitzer Prize
    • WINNER | 1973
      Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

    The Optimist's Daughter    , the "best book Eudora Welty has ever written" (The New York Times Book Review), is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young Southern woman who returns to New Orleans years later because of her dying father. After his death, she and her stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

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    One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. She died in 2001. View titles by Eudora Welty

    Awards

    • WINNER | 1973
      Pulitzer Prize
    • WINNER | 1973
      Pulitzer Prize (Fiction)

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