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Katherine Anne Porter (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Katherine Anne Porter began her literary career as a journalist; necessity forced her, at age twenty-seven, into the field. Writing reviews for the Critic, a Fort Worth weekly newspaper, earned Porter a paycheck and a reputation as a good reporter. Shortly after beginning her career as a journalist, Porter applied her writing skills to a new genre—fiction. Porter rapidly developed her talent for writing fiction, and she is most famous as the author of some of America’s finest short stories. Such stories include “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”...
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- Katherine Anne Porter (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
- Katherine Anne Porter (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
- Katherine Anne Porter (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
- Katherine Anne Porter (Identities and Issues in Literature)
- Katherine Anne Porter (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
- Katherine Anne Porter (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, The (Identities and Issues) -
Downward Path to Wisdom, The (Short Stories) -
Flowering Judas and Other Stories (Women’s Literature) -
Flowering Judas (Short Stories) -
Grave, The (Short Stories) -
Jilting of Granny Weatherall, The (Short Stories) -
Leaning Tower, The (Short Stories) -
Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (Literary Annual Reviews) -
Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (Magill Book Reviews) -
María Concepción (Short Stories) -
Noon Wine (Short Stories) -
Old Mortality (Masterplots Classics) -
Old Mortality (Short Stories) -
Old Mortality (Character Profiles) -
Old Order, The (Women’s Literature) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Masterplots Classics) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Short Stories) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Women’s Literature) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Character Profiles) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Identities and Issues) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Literary Places) -
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Magill Book Reviews) -
Rope (Short Stories) -
Ship of Fools (Masterplots Classics) -
Ship of Fools (Women’s Literature) -
Ship of Fools (Character Profiles) -
Ship of Fools (Literary Places) -
Ship of Fools (Magill Book Reviews) -
Theft (Short Stories) -
Novella, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Mid-Twentieth Century: 1920-1960, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
