Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
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Sobre El Autor
Katherine Anne Porter is known for her subtle and delicate perception; her careful, disciplined technique; and her precision of word and phrase. She wrote slowly and with restraint but achieved an impression of ease and naturalness that is close to perfection. She was born in Texas, schooled in mostrar más Louisiana convents, and, working as a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, traveled to such places as Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, and Mexico. Her Collected Stories (1965), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1966, was written over a long lifetime. It includes works that have been a standard part of high school and college literature courses for a half-century. Among the best are "Noon Wine," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and "Flowering Judas." "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," long enough to be considered a novelette, is one of several stories about a character named Miranda who as a girl and young woman undergoes experiences not unlike those of Porter. Other Miranda stories are "Old Mortality" and a group of seven gathered under the title "The Old Order" that deal with her childhood. Her one and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools (1962), 20 years in the writing, "is the story of a voyage... . A novel of character rather than of action, it has as its main purpose a study of the German ethos shortly before Hitler's coming to power in Germany... ."Ship of Fools' is also a human comedy and a moral allegory" (New Yorker). To some critics, the book was a disappointment, but all recognized its importance and it appeared on the bestseller list for 28 weeks in 1962. "In my view," wrote Robert Penn Warren in a tribute published in Saturday Review after Porter's death in 1980, "the final importance of Katherine Anne Porter is not merely that she has written a number of fictions which have enlarged and deepened the nature of the story, both short and long, in our time, but that she has created an oeuvre---a body of work including fiction, essays, letters, and journals---that bears the stamp of a personality, distinctive, delicately perceptive, keenly aware of the depth and darkness of human experience, delighted by the beauty of the world and the triumphs of human kindness and warmth, and thoroughly committed to a quest for meaning in the midst of the ironic complexities of man's lot." Much of the nonfictional part of that body of work was gathered into The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: UPress, University Press of Mississippi
Obras de Katherine Anne Porter
The Grave 2 copias
A Day's Work 2 copias
Flowering Judas [short story] 2 copias
María Concepción 2 copias
[No title] 1 copia
Brod budala 1 copia
Bolondok hajj̤a : regňy 1 copia
Antologia do conto moderno — Autor — 1 copia
Porter, Katherine Anne Archive 1 copia
Det skæve tårn 1 copia
Old Order - Stories Of The South From Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider And The Leaning Tower (1972) 1 copia
Rope 1 copia
Theft 1 copia
He 1 copia
They Trample on Your Heart 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 919 copias
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contribuidor — 142 copias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 132 copias
The Retrial of Joan of Arc: The Evidence for her Vindication (1953) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 76 copias
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Many-Colored Fleece: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Catholic Fiction (2022) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1937) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Fiesta in November; stories from Latin America, selected and edited by Angel Flores and Dudley Poore, with an… (1942) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 6 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Porter, Callie Russel
- Otros nombres
- Porter, Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1890-05-15
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1980-09-18
- Lugar de sepultura
- Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
New York, New York, USA
Mexico City, Mexico
Berlin, Germany (mostrar todos 9)
Paris, France
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Kyle, Texas, USA - Educación
- self-educated
- Ocupaciones
- short-story writer
novelist
essayist
journalist
translator
literary critic (mostrar todos 7)
ghostwriter - Relaciones
- Erskine, Albert (husband)
Taylor, Peter Hillsman (friend) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1941)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice-president, 1950-52) - Premios y honores
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1962)
Gold medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1967)
Creative arts award, Brandeis University (1971-72)
Postage stamp, US Postal Service (2006)
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Books with Twins (1)
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