Katherine Porter
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was an American author. Her works include Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944), Ship of Fools (1962), and Collected Stories (1965). She won a Pulitzer Prize for Collected Stories.[1]
Life and Works
Porter was born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek Texas, though she later changed her name to mimic her grandmother's.[2] When she was very young, her mother died, and she and her father moved in with her grandmother, who subsequently died when Porter was 11.[3] During the 1920s, she wrote short stories for magazines, usually lesser-known ones so she could control every word of her work.[4] She published her first volume of stories, Flowering Judas, in 1930, which pleased critics yet did not sell; it only earned her a Guggenheim Award which provided money for some abroad study in Mexico and Germany.[5] She later published three shorter novels, Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and Pale Horse, Pale Rider in Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and more short novels collected in The Leaning Tower; novels from both were later adapted into radio dramas.[6] While followed by some short stories and criticisms, her most famous and widely read work she published in 1962, Ship of Fools, an allegorical story of Germans returning to their homeland from Mexico in 1931.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.
- ↑ http://www.famoustexans.com/katherineanneporter.htm
- ↑ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/katherine-anne-porter-is-born
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/katherine-anne-porter-about-katherine-anne-porter/686/
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Porter-Katherine-Anne.html
- ↑ http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/katherine-anne-porter-4337.php
- ↑ "Porter, Katherine Anne." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
