Eudora Welty - Honors

Honors

• 1941 – O. Henry Award, second place, "A Worn Path"
• 1942 – O. Henry Award, first place, "The Wide Net"
• 1943 – O. Henry Award, first place, "Livvie is Back"
• 1954 – William Dean Howells medal for fiction, The Ponder Heart
• 1968 – O. Henry Award, first place, "The Demonstrators”
• 1973 – Pulitzer Prize, The Optimist's Daughter
• 1980 – Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1981 – Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia
• 1983 – National Book Award for the first paperback edition of The Collected Works of Eudora Welty
• 1983 – Invited by Harvard University to give the first annual Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, revised and published as One Writer's Beginnings
• 1986 – National Medal of Arts.
• 1991 – National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
• 1991 – Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
• 1992 – Rea Award for the Short Story
• 1992 – PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story
• 1993 – Charles Frankel Prize, National Endowment for the Humanities
• 1993 – Distinguished Alumni Award, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
• 1996 – French Légion d’Honneur
• 1998 – First living author to have her works published in the prestigious Library of America series.