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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".
Katherine Anne Porter: 15 May 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, ... Awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize. [174] Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood [ao] 24 October 1830 Royalton, ...
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] The Collected Works of Katherine Anne Porter won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [3] and the National Book Award for Fiction. [4] [5] [6]
The literary center is maintained by the MFA program, and was the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Katherine Anne Porter. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
1967 – Katherine Anne Porter; 1972 – Eudora Welty; 1977 – Saul Bellow; 1978 – Peter Taylor; 1983 – Bernard Malamud; 1989 – Isaac Bashevis Singer; 1995 – William Maxwell; 2001 – Philip Roth; 2007 – John Updike [10] 2013 – E. L. Doctorow; 2019 – Toni Morrison
[34] Sponsored by PEN American Center and Katherine Anne Porter Foundation, the award included a cash prize of US$10,000. The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award which was last awarded in 2006. The award was given in 2008 only.
She won the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2015. Writing and reception [ edit ]
[118] [119] The standard $1000 cash prize was initially provided by the National Translation Center, which had been founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 with a grant from the Ford Foundation. [120] The first translation award ran from 1967 to 1983 and was for fiction only; the translated author could be living or dead.