Katherine Anne Porter

Callie Russell Porter, who took the name Katherine Anne, was born in 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas, lost her mother at the age of two and was raised in poverty by her paternal grandmother. Married at sixteen, she divorced in 1915, then remarried several times. A journalist in Denver, she nearly died of influenza in 1918, then from 1920 moved in revolutionary circles in Mexico. She published little, did not produce a novel until she was over seventy, and in 1966 received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her collected stories. She died in Maryland in 1980.

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• Short storiesPale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short NovelsKatherine Anne Porter · 1939Literature