Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned American author of short stories and essays. Best known for her short story collections and the novel Ship of Fools, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal Award for Fiction.
"[Porter's] stories rank among the best in American literature." --
The Guardian"Miss Porter's best stories are so transparent that
they disappear as stories, as style, as literature, while leaving
the humanity of their pictures wordlessly intact." -- New York
Review of Books"Few writers in America or anywhere else have
matched [Porter's] powers of deep poetic concentration, her
intelligence, her responsiveness to the inner life of her
characters, her sharp sense of the pressing forces of history,
nationality, and social atmosphere." -- New Republic"Katherine Anne
Porter moves in the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne,
Flaubert, and Henry James."
-- Saturday Review
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