Porter, Katherine Anne
Porter, Katherine Anne( 1890–1980),born in Texas of a family with a long Southern heritage, was educated in convent and private schools. She later traveled widely, and the settings for her fiction, in addition to her native state, include Mexico, where she lived for some time, and Germany, where she resided more briefly. France, where she lived during her first marriage, presumably did not affect her literary career, except that she translated an old French Song-Book (1933). Her early stories, published as Flowering Judas (1930), immediately won her a critical reputation as a pure stylist who handled complex subjects with economy while penetrating the psychology of characters with great subtlety. Hacienda (1934) and Noon Wine (1937) are stories of intense emotions, the former being set in Mexico and concerned with the making of a film by the Soviet cinema director Eisenstein, the latter set on a Texas farm and dealing...
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