Editing Eudora Welty (section)

==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''<ref name="dawidoff">Dawidoff, Nicholas. (August 10, 1995.) "[https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/welty-home.html At Home with Eudora Welty: Only the Typewriter Is Silent]". ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 28, 2011.</ref>
* 1968: O. Henry Award, first place, "The Demonstrators”
* 1969: Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 24, 2014}}</ref>
* 1970: The [[Edward MacDowell Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.macdowell.org/medal-day-history|title=Macdowell Medalists|accessdate=August 22, 2022}}</ref>
* 1973: [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]], ''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]''<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction "Fiction"]. ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-19.</ref>
* 1979: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] in Urbana, Illinois<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://commencement.illinois.edu/assets/docs/Honorary%20Degree%20List.pdf.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 12, 2015 |archive-date=November 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117135001/http://commencement.illinois.edu/assets/docs/Honorary%20Degree%20List.pdf.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 1980: [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]<ref name="dawidoff"/>
* 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''<ref name=nba1983>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1983 "National Book Awards – 1983"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26. <br />(With essay by Robin Black from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref><ref group=lower-alpha name=paperback>
Welty's ''Collected Works'' won the 1983 [[National Book Award for Fiction#1980 to 1989|award for paperback Fiction]]. From 1980 to 1983 in [[National Book Awards#History|National Book Awards history]] there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including this one.</ref>
* 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''<ref name="johnston"/><ref name=nyt1984welty/>
* 1983: [[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|title=Saint Louis Literary Award - Saint Louis University|website=www.slu.edu|access-date=March 28, 2018|archive-date=August 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |title=Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award |author=Saint Louis University Library Associates |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731082313/http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |archive-date=July 31, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 1985: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from [[The College of William and Mary in Virginia]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honorary degree recipients |url=https://scrc-kb.libraries.wm.edu/honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=March 3, 2024 |website=William & Mary Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center|date=September 25, 2020 }}</ref>
* 1985: Achievement Award, [[American Association of University Women]]
* 1986: [[National Medal of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-02-15|title=Lifetime Honors: National Medal of Arts|url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#86|date=21 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#86|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref>
* 1990: A recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, Lifetime Achievement, which was the state of Mississippi's recognition of her extraordinary contribution to American Letters.
* 1991: [[National Book Foundation]] [[National Book Award#Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters|Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters]]<ref name=medal>
[http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters.html "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. <br />(With acceptance speech by Welty.)</ref><ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 547">Marrs, p. 547</ref>
* 1991: [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]].<ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 547"/><ref>Dana Sterling, [http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=275637&archive=yes "Welty reads to audience at Helmerich award dinner"], ''[[Tulsa World]]'', December 7, 1991.</ref> The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the [[Tulsa City-County Library|Tulsa Library Trust]].
* 1992: Rea Award for the Short Story<ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 549">Marrs, p. 549</ref>
* 1992: [[PEN/Malamud Award]] for the Short Story<ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 549"/>
* 1992: [[National Humanities Medal]]<ref name="frankel">{{cite web |title=Charles Frankel Prize |url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/charles-frankel-prize |website=NEH.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-07-19}}</ref>
* 1993: [[Charles Frankel]] Prize, [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]<ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 549"/>
* 1993: Distinguished Alumni Award, American Association of State Colleges and Universities<ref name="Suzanne Marrs 2005, p. 549"/>
* 1996: Made a ''[[Legion of Honour|Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur]]'' by the French government
* 1998: First living author to have her works published in the prestigious [[Library of America]] series<ref name="johnston"/>
* 2000: [[America Award in Literature|America Award]] for a lifetime contribution to international writing
* 2000: Induction into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]]<ref>[https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/eudora-welty/ National Women's Hall of Fame, Eudora Welty]</ref>