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Katherine Anne Porter (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
During Katherine Anne Porter’s unhappy early life, she received little encouragement to become a creative writer, yet her very misery may have spurred this sensitive and strong-willed young girl to greatness. Born Callie Russell Porter in a log cabin on the Texas frontier, she lost her mother, Mary Alice Jones Porter, when she was only two and struggled through poverty and the humiliation of being a motherless child. Her father, Harrison Boone Porter, seems to have lost his will to provide for himself and his family after his wife’s death. Thus, the burden of...
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Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (Literary Annual Reviews) -
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Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
