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Awards
The following is a list of the major awards Eudora Welty has received over the course of her lifetime.
1920-- Silver Badge, St. Nicholas Magazine, for a drawing "A Heading for August."
1935-- 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-- "A Curtain of Green" in The Best American Short Stories of 1939.
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.
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.
1966-- Creative Arts Medal for Fiction from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
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 Newcomb College, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1975-- Honorary Degree from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, 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.
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.
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-- 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.
1994-- Richard Wright Literary Prize from Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Wesson, Mississippi.
1996-- French Legion d'Honneur.
This is an archive copy of "A Lifetime of Honors for Eudora Welty" as published in the Winter, 1997 Eudora Welty Newsletter.
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