noun
United States writer about rural southern life (1909-2001)
• Syn: ↑Welty
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(1909–2001) a US writer of novels and short stories about her home state of ↑Mississippi and the US ↑South. She won the ↑Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) and her collections of stories include The Golden Apples (1949).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.