Dec 22, 2009
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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