BIOGRAPHY

Hendrick, George. Katherine Anne Porter. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1965, 176 p.

Biographical and critical study.

CRITICISM

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. Katherine Anne Porter's Artistic Development: Primitivism, Traditionalism, and Totalitarianism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993, 237 p.

Traces Porter's development as a short story writer and novelist.

Christensen, Peter G. “Katherine Anne Porter's ‘Flowering Judas’ and D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent: Contrasting Visions of Women in the Mexican Revolution.” South Atlantic Review 56, No. 1 (1991): 35–46.

Compares the depiction of women in Porter's “Flowering Judas” and D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent.

Emmons, Winfred S. Katherine Anne Porter: The Regional Stories. Austin: Steck-Vaughn Co., 1967, 43 p.

Surveys Porter's short stories set in the American South.

Hartley, Lodwick, and Core, George, eds. Katherine Anne Porter: A Critical Symposium. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1969, 242 p.

Contains seventeen essays by such writers as Cleanth Brooks, Eudora Welty, and Robert Penn Warren.

Johnson, James William. “Another Look at Katherine Anne Porter.” Virginia Quarterly Review 36, No. 4 (Autumn 1960): 598–613.

Offers an overview of the thematic concerns and symbolism in Porter's work.

Mooney, Harry John, Jr. The Fiction and Criticism of Katherine Anne Porter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1957, 58 p.

Examines various aspects of Porter's writing, stressing their political implications.

Warren, Robert Penn. Katherine Anne Porter: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979, 195 p.

Collection of critical essays.

Welty, Eudora. “My Introduction to Katherine Anne Porter.” Georgia Review 44, Nos. 1–2 (Spring-Summer, 1990): 13–27.

Personal recollections of Welty's friendship with Porter.

Additional coverage of Porter's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors in the News, Vol. 2; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1–4; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 1, 101; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 15, 27, 101; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 9, 102; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 12; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1980; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists; Major 20th-Century Writers, Vols. 1, 2; Something About the Author, Vol. 39.