ALS, 1962 October 16 : Washington, D.C., to Mr. Walter Swanson, La Jolla, California.

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ALS, 1962 October 16 : Washington, D.C., to Mr. Walter Swanson, La Jolla, California.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16817090

The author of "Ship of Fools" replies to a comment about one of the book's characters. "It was wonderful of you to have seen it, and more wonderful to have written to me about it ... I remember La Jolla dearly--I should have loved to live there."

2 p. ; 6.5 x 9 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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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 ...

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