Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 24, 1995 TAG: 9508240038
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty will receive France's highest civilian honor, The Legion of Honor, later this year.
In 1987, she was knighted by France and became Chevalier Eudora Welty. In 1993, France's 223-year-old University of Burgundy gave her an honorary doctorate and named its women's writing center ``Eudora.''
``It's wonderful. I'm very thrilled by it all,'' Welty, 86, said Tuesday. ``It's sort of fairy-tale-like. ... It's so much grander than anything I'm used to thinking of.''
Welty won the Pulitzer in 1973 for her novel ``The Optimist's Daughter.'' Her other books include, ``One Writer's Beginnings'' and ``The Robber Bridegroom.''
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