The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner 8 Fiction To its official boosters

To its official boosters

it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe

King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X

and take your dearest friend along for the time of your lives

Date: 12/22/1988

The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner 8 Fiction To its official boostersAuthor Contributor(s): Welty, Eudora Publisher: Vintage Date: 8 11 1990 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW This Pulitzer Prizewinning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes