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Writers
- Eudora Welty: Awards and Honors
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1920 |
Silver
Badge, St.
Nicholas Magazine,
for a drawing
"A Heading
for August." |
| 1921 |
$25
prize in "Jackie
Mackie Jingles
Contest."
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| 1925 |
Gold
Badge, St.
Nicholas Magazine,
for a poem
"In the
Twilight." |
| 1938 |
"Lily
Daw and the
Three Ladies"
in The
Best American
Short Stories
of 1938. |
| 1939 |
"Petrified
Man"
in Prize Stories
1939: The
O. Henry Awards.
|
| 1940 |
"The
Hitchhikers"
in Best
American Short
Stories 1940.
|
| 1940 |
Bread Loaf
Fellowship
for the upcoming
summer. |
| 1941 |
Yaddo Writers'
Conference,
Saratoga Springs,
New York.
|
| 1941 |
"A
Worn Path"
in Prize Stories
1941: The
O. Henry Awards. |
| 1942 |
Guggenheim
Fellowship. |
| 1942 |
"The
Wide Net"
in Prize
Stories 1942:
The O. Henry
Awards,
second place.
|
| 1943 |
"Asphodel"
in The
Best American
Short Stories
of 1943. |
| 1943 |
"Livvie
Is Back"
in Prize
Stories 1943:
The O. Henry
Awards,
first place.
|
| 1944 |
American
Academy of
Arts and Letters,
$1000 prize.
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1946 |
"A
Sketching
Trip"
in Prize
Stories 1946:
The O. Henry
Awards.
|
| 1947 |
"The
Whole World
Knows"
in Prize
Stories 1947:
The O. Henry
Awards.
|
| 1949 |
Guggenheim
fellowship
renewal. |
| 1951 |
"The
Burning"
in Prize
Stories 1951:
The O. Henry
Awards,
second place.
|
| 1952 |
Election
to the National
Institute
of Arts and
Letters. |
| 1954 |
Honorary
LL.D. from
the University
of Wisconsin.
|
| 1955 |
Howells
Medal for
Fiction from
the American
Academy of
Arts and Letters
for The
Ponder Heart.
|
| 1956 |
Honorary
LL.D. from
Smith College.
|
| 1957 |
"A
Flock of Guinea
Hens Seen
from a Car"
in Best
Poems of 1957.
|
| 1958 |
Honorary
Consultant
to Library
of Congress.
|
| 1958 |
Lucy Donnelley
Fellowship
Award from
Bryn Mawr
College. |
| 1960 |
Ford Foundation
grant for
two seasons
of observation
and study
at New York's
Phoenix Theatre. |
| 1962 |
Henry Bellamann
Memorial Foundation
for Contribution
to American
Letters. The
award of $1,000
was presented
at Mississippi
College, Clinton. |
| 1966 |
Creative
Arts Medal
for Fiction
from Brandeis
University,
Waltham, Massachusetts.
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1968 |
"The
Demonstrators"
in Prize
Stories 1968:
The O. Henry
Awards,
first place. |
| 1970 |
Edward
MacDowell
Medal. |
| 1971 |
Doctor
of Letters
degree from
the University
of the South.
|
| 1972 |
Election
to the American
Academy of
Arts and Letters. |
| 1972 |
Gold
Medal for
Fiction of
the National
Institute
of Arts and
Letters. |
| 1973 |
Pulitzer
Prize for
Fiction for
The Optimist's
Daughter.
|
| 1975 |
Honorary
Degree from
Yale University,
New Haven,
Connecticut. |
| 1975 |
Honorary
Degree from
Newcomb College,
New Orleans,
Louisiana. |
| 1975 |
Honorary
Degree from
Mount Holyoke
College, South
Hadley, Massachusetts. |
| 1977 |
Honorary
Degree from
Harvard University,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts. |
| 1979 |
Honorary
Doctor of
Letters degree
from the University
of Illinois-Urbana. |
| 1979 |
National
Medal for
Literature
for 1979 from
the American
Book Award.
|
| 1980 |
Medal of
Freedom given
by Jimmy Carter.
|
| 1981 |
Honorary
Degree from
William Carey
College, Hattiesburg,
Mississippi. |
| 1981 |
Medal of
Excellence
from Mississippi
University
for Women
(formerly
Mississippi
State College
for Women).
|
| 1982 |
Eudora Welty
Chair of Southern
Studies established
at Millsaps
College. |
| 1982 |
Honorary
Doctor of
Humane Letters
degree from
Columbia University. |
| 1983 |
St. Louis
Literary Award
from Associates
of St. Louis
Libraries.
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1984 |
Eudora
Welty New
Playwrights
Series established
at the New
Stage Theatre
of Jackson. |
| 1984 |
Common
Wealth Award
from the Modern
Language Association.
|
| 1984 |
Elmer
Holmes Bobst
Award for
Fiction for
lifetime achievement
in arts and
letters. |
| 1984 |
The
Lillian Smith
Special Lifetime
Achievement
Award from
the Southern
Regional Council
of Atlanta.
|
| 1986 |
Grand
Master Award
from the Birmingham-Southern
Writer's Conference.
|
| 1986 |
National
Medal of Arts
for contributions
to the nation's
culture from
the National
Endowment
for the Arts.
|
| 1986 |
The Eudora
Welty Library,
a branch of
the Jackson
Metropolitan
Library, dedicated.
|
| 1987 |
French Chevalier
de l'Ordre
des Arts et
Lettres medal.
|
| 1987 |
Authors
Award from
the Mississippi
Library Association. |
| 1987 |
Sesquicentennial
Medal from
Mount Holyoke
College, South
Hadley, Mass. |
| 1987 |
Appalachian
Gold Medallion
from the University
of Charleston,
Charleston,
West Virginia.
|
| 1988 |
Mississippi
Institute
of Arts and
Letters Lifetime
Achievement
Award. |
| 1988 |
Honorary
doctorate
from Princeton
University.
|
| 1989 |
Phi Beta
Kappa Associates
Award. |
| 1989 |
Selected
to have portrait
hung in the
National Portrait
Gallery of
the Smithsonian
Institution
by the National
Portrait Gallery
Commission.
|
| 1991 |
The Corrington
Award from
the Department
of English
at Centenary
College in
Shreveport,
Louisiana.
|
| 1991 |
Peggy V.
Helmerich
Distinguished
Author Award
from the Tulsa
Library Trust. |
| 1991 |
Cleanth
Brooks Medal
for Distinguished
Achievement
in Southern
Letters from
the Fellowship
of Southern
Writers. |
|
1991 |
National
Book Foundation
Medal for
Distinguished
Contribution
to American
Letters. |
| 1991 |
PEN-Malamud
Award for
Excellence
in The Short
Story. |
| 1992 |
Frankel
Humanities
Prize from
the National
Endowment
for the Humanities.
|
| 1992 |
Distinguished
Alumni Award
from the American
Association
of State Colleges
and Universities.
|
| 1993 |
Honorary
Degree from
the University
of Burgundy,
France. |
| 1994 |
Richard
Wright Literary
Prize from
Copiah-Lincoln
Community
College, Wesson,
Mississippi. |
| 1996 |
French
Légion
d'Honneur.
|
| 1998 |
Doctor of
Humane Letters
degree from
the Mississippi
University
for Women
(formerly
Mississippi
State College
for Women)
in Columbus.
|
| 1998 |
The Mayor's
Arts Achievement
Honors from
the Arts Alliance
of Jackson
and Hinds
County in
Jackson, Mississippi.
|
| 1999 |
Distinguished
Achievement
Award from
the Southern
Book Critics
Circle. |
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