Porter, Katherine Anne
Born: May 15, 1890 AD
Died: 1980 AD, at 90 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
Died: 1980 AD, at 90 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
1890 - Katherine Anne Potter, born on the 15th of May in Indian Creek, Texas, U.S. American novelist and short-story writer, a master stylist whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel.
1920 - She was educated at private and convent schools in the South. She worked as a newspaperwoman in Chicago and in Denver, Colorado, before leaving for Mexico, the scene of several of her stories.
1922 - “Maria Concepcion,” her first published story , was included in her first book of stories.
1930 - Flowering Judas, which was enlarged in 1935 with other stories.
1939 - The title story of her next collection, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, is a poignant tale of youthful romance brutally thwarted by the young man's death in the influenza epidemic. In it and the two other stories of the volume, “Noon Wine” a
nd “Old Mortality,” appears for the first time her semiautobiographical heroine, Miranda, a spirited and independent woman.
1944 - She published The Leaning Tower, a collection of stories, and won.
1962 - Henry Award for her story, “Holiday.” The literary world awaited with great anticipation the appearance of Porter's only full-length novel, on which she had been working again.
- With the publication of Ship of Fools in 1962, she won a large readership for the first time.
1965 - A best-seller that became a major film, it tells of the ocean voyage of a group of Germans back to their homeland from Mexico in, on the eve of Hitler's ascendency.
- His Collected Short Storieswon the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her essays, articles, and book reviews were collected in The Days Before augmented.
1977- Her last work, published , when she suffered a disabling stroke, was The Never-Ending Wrong, dealing with the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1980 - Died on the 18th of September in Silver Spring, Maryland.
1920 - She was educated at private and convent schools in the South. She worked as a newspaperwoman in Chicago and in Denver, Colorado, before leaving for Mexico, the scene of several of her stories.
1922 - “Maria Concepcion,” her first published story , was included in her first book of stories.
1930 - Flowering Judas, which was enlarged in 1935 with other stories.
1939 - The title story of her next collection, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, is a poignant tale of youthful romance brutally thwarted by the young man's death in the influenza epidemic. In it and the two other stories of the volume, “Noon Wine” a
nd “Old Mortality,” appears for the first time her semiautobiographical heroine, Miranda, a spirited and independent woman.
1944 - She published The Leaning Tower, a collection of stories, and won.
1962 - Henry Award for her story, “Holiday.” The literary world awaited with great anticipation the appearance of Porter's only full-length novel, on which she had been working again.
- With the publication of Ship of Fools in 1962, she won a large readership for the first time.
1965 - A best-seller that became a major film, it tells of the ocean voyage of a group of Germans back to their homeland from Mexico in, on the eve of Hitler's ascendency.
- His Collected Short Storieswon the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her essays, articles, and book reviews were collected in The Days Before augmented.
1977- Her last work, published , when she suffered a disabling stroke, was The Never-Ending Wrong, dealing with the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1980 - Died on the 18th of September in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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