A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

Appendix 5: List of Honorary Degrees and Major Awards

100 Appendix 5 List of Honorary Degrees and Major Awards honorary degrees 1954 Doctor of Letters, University of Wisconsin–Madison 1955 Doctor in Letters, Western College for Women, Ohio 1956 Doctor in Letters, Smith College, Massachusetts 1969 Doctor of Humane Letters, Millsaps College, Mississippi 1971 Doctor of Literature, Denison University, Ohio 1971 Doctor of Letters, The University of the South,Tennessee 1971 Doctor in Letters, Meridian University, California 1972 Doctor of Letters, Washington and Lee University, Virginia 1973 Queens University, North Carolina 1975 Doctor of Letters,Tulane University, Louisiana 1975 Doctor of Humane Letters, Southern Methodist University,Texas 1975 Doctor of Letters,Yale University, Connecticut 1975 Doctor of Literature, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts 1976 Doctor of Letters, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1977 Doctor of Letters, Washington University, Missouri 1977 Doctor of Literature, Harvard University, Massachusetts 1978 Doctor of Letters, Rutgers University, New Jersey 1979 Doctor of Letters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1979 Doctor of Humane Letters, Brandeis University, Massachusetts 1980 Doctor of Humanities, Drew University, New Jersey 1980 Doctor of Letters, Belhaven College, Mississippi 101 Appendix 5: List of Honorary Degrees and Major Awards 1980 Doctor of Letters, Kenyon College, Ohio 1980 Doctor of Humane Letters, Southwestern College at Memphis (Rhodes College) 1980 Doctor of Humanities, Brigham Young University, Utah 1981 Doctor of Humane Letters, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia 1981 Doctor of Literature, William Carey College, Mississippi 1981 Doctor of Literature, University of West Florida, Florida 1982 Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, New York 1982 Doctor of Humane Letters, Emory University, Georgia 1984 Doctor of Letters, Wake Forest University, North Carolina 1985 Doctor of Humane Letters, The College of William and Mary, Virginia 1986 Doctor of Humane Letters, Queens College, New York 1987 Doctor of Letters, University of Charleston, West Virginia 1988 Doctor of Literature, Princeton University, New Jersey 1989 Doctor of Humane Letters, Chestnut Hill College, Pennsylvania 1991 Doctor of Humane Letters, Centenary College, Louisiana 1993 Honorary Doctorate, University of Burgundy, France 1998 Doctor of Humane Letters, Mississippi University for Women major awards 1920 Silver Badge, St. Nicholas magazine, for the drawing A Heading for August 1925 Silver Badge, St. Nicholas magazine, for the poem“In the Twilight” 1938 “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies” in The Best American Short Stories 1938 1939 “A Curtain of Green” in The Best American Short Stories 1939 1939 “Petrified Man” in Prize Stories 1939: The O. Henry Awards 1940 “The Hitch-Hikers” in The Best American Short Stories 1940 1941 “A Worn Path” in Prize Stories 1941: The O. Henry Awards, second place 1942 Guggenheim Fellowship 1942 “The Wide Net” in Prize Stories 1942: The O. Henry Awards, first place 102 Appendix 5: List of Honorary Degrees and Major Awards 1943 “Asphodel” in The Best American Short Stories 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 1955 Howells Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for The Ponder Heart 1957 “A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car” in Best Poems of 1957 1968 “The Demonstrators” in Prize Stories 1968: The O. Henry Awards, first place 1972 Election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1972 Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Optimist’s Daughter 1980 National Medal for Literature 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom given by President Jimmy Carter 1984 Commonwealth Award from the Modern Language Association 1984 Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Fiction for lifetime achievement in arts and letters 1986 National Medal of the Arts for contributions to the nation’s culture from the National Endowment for the Arts, given by President Ronald Reagan 1987 French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres medal 1988 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award 1989 Selected to have portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution by the National Portrait Gallery Commission 1991 Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters from the Fellowship of Southern Writers...