Eudora Welty
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...
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| Answer | Clues |
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| HUMOR | 135 clues |
| ANXIETY | 117 clues |
| WRITING | 74 clues |
| INTERESTING | 61 clues |
| HISTORICAL | 60 clues |
| READING | 52 clues |
| LITERATURE | 47 clues |
| BOOKS | 44 clues |
| INSPIRATION | 34 clues |
| CREATIVITY | 31 clues |
| PHILOSOPHICAL | 18 clues |
| POLITICAL | 15 clues |
| EXISTENTIAL | 4 clues |
| RELATIONSHIPS | 3 clues |
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- Author Welty 75.00%
- Writer Welty 66.67%
- Eudora, the novelist. 64.52%
- Southern author Welty 60.61%
- Wordsmith Welty 59.26%
- Miss Welty 54.55%
- Novelist Welty 53.85%
- Pulitzer winner Welty 48.48%
- Pulitzer-winning novel by Eudora Welty 48.00%
- Author Eudora 48.00%
- Writer Eudora 48.00%
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- The Ponder Heart novelist Welty 46.51%
- Novelist Eudora 44.44%
- 1956 short-story collection by Eudora Welty 43.64%
- "Why I Live at the P.O." author Welty 43.48%
- Miss Welty et al. 42.86%
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Welty 42.55%
- Welty Author 41.67%
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
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