Katherine Anne Porter Papers 1935-1974

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Katherine Anne Porter Papers 1935-1974

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Journalist, author, and political activist. Correspondence chiefly from Porter to Marcelle Sibon, Porter's French translator, along with other papers relating to Porter's personal and private affairs, her work as an author, and literary topics in general.

200 items; 1 container; .4 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357274

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Gossett, Louise Y.

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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Gossett, Louise Y.

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Sibon, Marcelle.

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Ashford, Gerald, 1907-

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