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Who was the first living author whose works were published by the Library of America?

  • Eudora Welty

  • Philip Roth

  • Ernest Hemingway

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Eudora Welty was an American author of short stories, novels, and essays. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and her writing often focused on the lives of ordinary people in the South. Welty's first short story was published in 1936, and she published her first novel, Delta Wedding, in 1946. Welty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 for her novel The Optimist's Daughter.
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