Roger L. Brooks Katherine Anne Porter Papers, 1898-1977, (bulk 1972-1977).

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Roger L. Brooks Katherine Anne Porter Papers, 1898-1977, (bulk 1972-1977).

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This collection of correspondence, photographs, and two interviews lends an insight into Katherine Anne Porter's relationship to her home state of Texas in the last years of her life. Correspondence with Dr. Roger L. Brooks of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, documents Porter's interest in returning to Texas and visiting her mother's gravesite. While these 10 letters and 2 telegrams hardly comprise the bulk of this collection, they shed light on Ms. Porter's relationship to Texas during this time of her life. Correspondence from other writers and literary figures to Dr. Brooks regarding Ms. Porter's work represents the status Ms. Porter enjoyed towards the end of her life nationally, as well as within Texan literary circles. The bulk of the collection is comprised of these letters from other writers to Dr. Brooks. A lengthy interview with Ms. Porter in the early 1970s also gives a unique view into her definitions of art, religion, her methods of writing, and more. Also included in this collection is Dr. Brooks' collection of Katherine Anne Porter books signed and inscribed by the author. Dr. Brooks' personal copies of periodicals in which Ms. Porter's stories and articles have appeared have been cataloged separately. The majority of Ms. Porter's personal papers, manuscripts, and personal library are housed at the University of Maryland at College Park.

4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615081

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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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 ...

Brooks, Roger L.

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Vice president, graduate studies at Houston Baptist University. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1979. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 695407066 Katherine Anne Porter, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author, was born Callie Russell Porter in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1890. She was one of five children. Her mother, Mary Alice Jones Porter, died during childbirth in 1892, leaving the Porter children to b...