Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
Forfatter af The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Katherine Anne Porter
Pale horse, pale rider : the selected short stories 7 eksemplarer
Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories 3 eksemplarer
The Grave 2 eksemplarer
Selected Short Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter 2 eksemplarer
A Day's Work 2 eksemplarer
Flowering Judas [short story] 2 eksemplarer
María Concepción 2 eksemplarer
[No title] 1 eksemplar
Brod budala 1 eksemplar
Bolondok hajj̤a : regňy 1 eksemplar
The Collected Stories of Katherin Anne Porter 1 eksemplar
Antologia do conto moderno — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Essays, Reviews, and Other Writings 1 eksemplar
Porter, Katherine Anne Archive 1 eksemplar
Det skæve tårn 1 eksemplar
Old Order - Stories Of The South From Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider And The Leaning Tower (1972) 1 eksemplar
Rope 1 eksemplar
Theft 1 eksemplar
He 1 eksemplar
They Trample on Your Heart 1 eksemplar
Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 915 eksemplarer
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Bidragyder — 141 eksemplarer
The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children (1831) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 140 eksemplarer
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
The Retrial of Joan of Arc: The Evidence for her Vindication (1953) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 76 eksemplarer
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
Many-Colored Fleece: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Catholic Fiction (2022) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1937) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Fiesta in November; stories from Latin America, selected and edited by Angel Flores and Dudley Poore, with an… (1942) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 6 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Porter, Callie Russel
- Andre navne
- Porter, Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russel
- Fødselsdato
- 1890-05-15
- Dødsdag
- 1980-09-18
- Begravelsessted
- Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Dødssted
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Bopæl
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
New York, New York, USA
Mexico City, Mexico
Berlin, Germany (vis alle 9)
Paris, France
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Kyle, Texas, USA - Uddannelse
- self-educated
- Erhverv
- short-story writer
novelist
essayist
journalist
translator
literary critic (vis alle 7)
ghostwriter - Relationer
- Erskine, Albert (husband)
Taylor, Peter Hillsman (friend) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1941)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice-president, 1950-52) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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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really slow plots and no characters to connect with.
The book begins by displaying a stereotypical narrative of lazy and watermelon eating negroes,
then quickly advances to the opposite with the tales of Grandmother and Aunt Nannie.
Nannie originally was gifted to Grandmother as a slave, then emancipated.
Their friendship and sewing were a joy to read, as was Nannie's eventual freedom to live alone and happy.… (mere)