Eudora is from the Greek eu (good) + dōron (gift). **Eudora Welty (1909-2001)** — the **American Southern Gothic novelist and short-story writer whose *The Optimist's Daughter* (1972) won the Pulitzer Prize**. **Her *A Curtain of Green* (1941), *The Robber Bridegroom* (1942), and *The Golden Apples* (1949) are foundational works of American short fiction**. **Photographer for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression** — her portraits of Mississippi are now in the Smithsonian. **First living author included in the Library of America series.**
Subject of Suzanne Marrs's *Eudora Welty: A Biography* (2005).
Eudora reduces to four — the number of Southern Gothic novelist.