The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award–winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature

Eudora Welty’s Collected Stories confirms her place as a contemporary master of short fiction. Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story. The forty-one pieces collected here, written over a period of three decades, include “A Petrified Man,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” “The Wide Net,” and “The Bride of Innisfallen.”

EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi.?In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth, and three works of nonfiction.?