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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

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Eudora Welty
Age: 102 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: July 23
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Autobiographer
Literary Critic
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Eudora Alice Welty
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