Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1930-1964
- Setting: New York, Mexico, Berlin, Basel, Paris, New Orleans, California, Ann Arbor, Rome, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Cyrilly Abels, Elizabeth Ames, Donald Brace, Albert Erskine, Caroline Gordon, Josephine Herbst, Harrison Boone Porter, Paul Harrison Porthr, Eugene Dove Pressly, Alan Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Communism or communists, Authors or writers
- Locales: California, New York, New Orleans, LA, Mexico, Paris, France, Washington, D.C., Berlin, Germany, Rome, Italy, Ann Arbor, MI, Basel, Switzerland
This is one of the most comprehensive and clearly ordered collections of a major American literary figure’s letters. Isabel Bayley is Katherine Anne Porter’s literary executor. She has obviously spent many years pondering the letters and deciding how best to present them. In her acknowledgments she thanks, among others, Leon Fdel, who advised her on the work, and it is apparent that she has profited greatly from the counsel she has sought.
One of the problems of large collections of letters is continuity. It is often difficult to sustain narrative momentum, to keep...
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