Literature · Reflection
EUDORA WELTY ~ THE THOUSAND LIVES OF A READER
16 April 2015
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Eudora Welty
Photo above Eudora Welty in the garden, weeding, in the 1940s. Photograph via Eudora Welty Foundation.
Eudora Alice Welty (1909 – 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
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