Critics call Texas-born writer Katherine Anne Porter a "poet of the story." Her carefully crafted short fiction earned her the highest acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born Callie Russell Porter in rural ...

most of the energies of my mind and spirit have been spent in the effort to grasp the meaning of those threats, to trace them to their sources and to understand the logic of this majestic and terrible ...

KYLE, Tex. — Nearly every day, I drove past that “dreary little place.” It was no longer so dreary, lovingly restored over the years by a professor, a small legion of preservationists and even a ...

Katherine Anne Porter had mixed emotions about her Texas roots. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author often embellished on her early life in poverty and even claimed to have been born in New Orleans or ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (CN) - The University of Maryland claims three trustees of the Literary Trust of Katherine Anne Porter had the Trust dissolved and transferred its assets to a foundation that they set ...

“The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.” London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Callie Russell Porter was one of four children born in 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas, a small community in west central ...

Katherine Anne Porter was one of the most noted of Texas novelists. Her career spanned decades, and though her output was limited, it had a profound impact on many aspiring writers from the 1930s ...

Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected Stories and Other Writings. Library of America. Oct. 2008. 1093p. F~The Library of America welcomes its newest member. This combines Porter's short stories ...

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her only novel, Ship of Fools (1962), based on her reminiscences of a 1931 ...