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Katherine Anne Porter was born in Indian Creek, Texas, as Callie Russell Porter to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice (Jones) Porter. Although her father claimed maternal descent from American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter herself altered this alleged descent to be from Boone's brother Jonathan as "the record of his descendants was obscure, so that no-one could contradict her".
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, a contemporary of Robert Penn Warren, Katherine Anne Porter, and Jean Stafford, grew up in Tennessee and was named for his father, Matthew Hillsman Taylor, an ...
Katherine Porter (1941 or 1944 – April 22, 2024) was an American visual artist. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine. [ 1 ] She resisted categorization.
Aug. 12—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 ...
Katherine Anne Porter: 1890 – 1980 Pulitzer Prize author of Ship of Fools and The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter: Claude McKay: 1890 – 1948 Author of Songs of Jamaica and Harlem Shadows [368] H. P. Lovecraft: 1890 – 1937 Author of "The Call of Cthulhu", At the Mountains of Madness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth [369] Zora ...
Michigan State University President Start year End year Reference Joseph R. Williams: 1857 1859 [3] Lewis R. Fiske: 1859 1862 Theophilus C. Abbot: 1862 1885 Edwin Willits: 1885 1889 Oscar Clute: 1889 1893 Lewis G. Gorton: 1893 1895 Jonathan L. Snyder: 1896 1915 Frank S. Kedzie: 1915 1921 David Friday: 1922 1923 Kenyon L. Butterfield: 1924 1928 ...
Her work attracted the attention of author Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. The book established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights, and featured the stories "Why I Live at the P.O.", "Petrified Man", and the ...
Rep. Katie Porter of California bought on the UC Irvine campus in 2011. Now she's facing criticism for living there while on leave from her faculty post.