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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a volume of her previously published collections of fiction and four uncollected works of short fiction. [1]Published in 1965 by Harcourt, Brace & World, the volume includes 26 works of fiction—all the stories that Porter "ever finished and published" in her lifetime. [2]
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".
Like The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and The Never-Ending Wrong, it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel Ship of Fools, which was published in 1962. [ 1 ] In his review of the book in The Georgia Review in 1971, E.C. Bufkin wrote, "As a record of her thinking and feeling, the selections cover a period of ...
Although the three short novels in this collection have been described as novellas, Porter referred to them as short novels.Porter, in the preface "Go Little Book . . " to The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, abjured the word "novella," calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything."
The Indian Creek native wrote a short story collection, "Flowering Judas and Other Stories," in 1935. She later won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter."
Flowering Judas and Other Stories is a collection of ten works of short fiction by Katherine Anne Porter, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1935. The volume is an amalgamation of four previously uncollected works and the six stories comprising Porter's first collection, Flowering Judas (1930), also published by Harcourt and Brace.
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 ...
The Old Order: Stories of the South is a collection of nine works of short fiction and a short novel by Katherine Anne Porter, published in 1955 by Harvest Books, a paperback subsidiary of Harcourt, Brace and Company. The works selected for this volume are assembled from Porter's previously published material.