- The email program Eudora is named after her.
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1929.
- Her short story "Why I Live at the P.O". is a staple of college literature anthologies.
- Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter".
- Was a writer for WJDX-AM in the 1920s.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.
- The character Eudora Welton in Flamingo Road (1980) is named after her.
- The grandmother in the Addams Family tv series and movies is named after her.
- She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1986 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
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