She was born, as she liked to tell people, Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russell Porter, in a log cabin in Indian Creek, Texas. She said her ancestors included Daniel Boone, and she claimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has written and edited several books about the work and life of Texas literary talent Katherine Anne Porter, who died in 1980. Unrue ...

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 ...

HAVING had the pleasure of a long friendship with Miss Porter, I find it irksome to call her “Miss Porter.” It has been mainly a comradeship of the literary life, and on that account perhaps, in ...

Katherine Anne PorterCollected Stories and Other WritingsLibrary of America, 1,100 pp., $40 Having by now published the best work of all the major writers in United States history, the Library of ...

The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what ...

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 ...