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Katherine Anne Porter (Callie Russell Porter)

May 15, 1890 to September 18, 1980

Born in Indian Creek, Texas & Died in Silver Springs Maryland

Best known as a short story writer, Porter won both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award.

 

 

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"Every day she teaches children who remain strangers to her, though she loves their tender round hands and their charming opportunist savagery."

 

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Good Website With Selections Of The Poetry Of Alexander Pope

 

Bibliography 

Flowering Judas and Other Stories - 1930

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels - 1939

The Leaning Tower and Other Stories - 1944

Ship Of Fools - 1962

The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter - 1965

 

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"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."