Katherine Anne Porter correspondence, 1942-1964.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Katherine Anne Porter correspondence, 1942-1964.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52434128

The collection consists of six items. Porter writes to Arthur B. Long, 4 Nov. 1961 (typed with handwritten corrections), describing photographs of herself by Long, to be used when her novel, Ship of fools, is published, and recounts her experiences with Long's new girlfriend, Dinah Sheean, and acquaintance Ernestine Evans. She mentions encounters with other friends, including Eudora Welty. Also, postcard to Father John Chalker, 17 Apr. 1964, thanking him for his prayer and support during her recent illness. Two letters to, and replies from, author Edna Frederikson, 1942-1943, concern Porter moving into her new house in Ballston Spa, N.Y., Eudora Welty and her books, Frederikson's writings, and Porter's personal news.

6 items.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7654041

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69707s7 (person)

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 ...

Chalker, John, Rev.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c1vd1 (person)

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6154f16 (person)

American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....

Evans, Ernestine, 1889-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz57k3 (person)

Journalist, news correspondent, editor for Coward-McCann and for J.B. Lippincott. From the description of Ernestine Evans papers, 1930-1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493896211 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Ernestine Evans was a prolific female journalist, author, editor and literary agent active in the early-to-mid twentieth century. BIOGHIST REQUIRED Evans was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1889. The first of two children b...

Frederikson, Edna

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s7msb (person)

Author, poet, and professor of history and English. From the description of Papers. 1941-1972. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 44078939 Edna Tutt Frederikson was born in Everton, Arkansas, on January 23, 1904, to David Walker and Britia Martia McNair Tutt; her family later relocated to Arkansas City, Kansas. President of her senior class and editor of the school yearbook, she graduated from Arkansas City High School in 1922. In June 1923,...

Long, Arthur B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xg9phf (person)