Houston Chronicle: Parker: Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter’s novel of 1918 flu reminds us to mourn the dead
Parker: Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter’s novel of 1918 flu reminds us to mourn the dead
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 ...
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 ...
SHIP OF FOOLS (497 pp.)—Katherine Anne Porter—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50). The year is 1931. A German passenger-freighter, the Vera (the name cruelly suggests “truth”) sails from Vera Cruz, bound ...
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. 495 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.95. Katherine Anne Porter has consistently been admired for what she is not. Since 1923, when her first story was ...
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 ...
PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER—Katherine Anne Porter—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Not many writers can sustain a literary reputation on the strength of one short story. But for almost ten years that has been the ...
On , Katherine Anne Porter published Ship of Fools, her first and last novel that put the uprooted Texan on easy street. Callie Russell Porter began her long life in 1890 at a wide spot in ...