Katherine Anne Porter & Eugene Dove Pressly Papers 1924-1962

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Katherine Anne Porter & Eugene Dove Pressly Papers 1924-1962

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv19154

Includes 28 letters to and from Katherine Anne Porter, 1934-1946. Also includes personal and professional correspondence, military and employment records, shorthand manuscripts and 2 one-page typescripts.

1 containers.; .25 linear feet of shelf space.; 275 items.

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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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 ...

Pressly, Eugene, 1904-1979

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Katherine Anne Porter: Katherine Anne Porter was born May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas, to Harrison Boone and Mary Alice Jones Porter. As a girl Porter received a traditional, albeit incomplete, formal education. In the course of her lifetime she became a voracious reader, and eventually traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. Porter's private life included a series of failed marriages, and was punctuated by affairs of a platonic and erotic nature. A co...