The Optimist's Daughter
First edition | |
| Author | Eudora Welty |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 208 pp |
| ISBN | 0-394-48017-1 |
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning short novel by Eudora Welty. It was first published as a long story in The New Yorker in March 1969 and was subsequently revised and published in book form in 1972.
It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after his surgery for a detached retina.