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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".
5 Fiction, novel, short story. 6 Graphic art. 7 History. ... followed by a list of all prizes in reverse chronological order: ... Katherine Anne Porter, Fiction; 1968 ...
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."
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 ...
"María Concepción" is a work of short fiction by Katherine Anne Porter first published in The Century Magazine in 1922. The story was collected in The Flowering Judas (1930) and later in Flowering Judas and Other Stories in 1935, each published by Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Saying Katherine Anne Porter lived a hard life would be an understatement; her mother died when Porter was 2 years old and her father became neglectful, so she was raised primarily by her ...
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer ... and eligibility was expanded to also include short ... Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) ...