On May 14, 1962, Katherine Anne Porter published Ship of Fools, her first and last novel that put the uprooted Texan on easy street. Callie Russell Porter began her long life in 1890 at a wide ...

Anne Channing Porter was born in 1911 to a non-Christian family of means and reputation. Her two loves were poetry and nature. She dropped out of college and considered herself a misfit ...

Los Angeles police officer Jack Traven couldn’t let a bomb-strapped bus go below 50 mph, and Annie Porter unexpectedly found herself in the driver’s seat. This week, Reeves and Bullock ...

Katherine Anne Porter was one of the most noted of Texas novelists. Her career spanned decades, and though her output was limited, it had a profound impact on many aspiring writers from the 1930s ...

Miss Katherine Anne Porter has published a new book of stories, her third: “The Leaning Tower and Other Stories” (Harcourt, Brace). To the reviewer, Miss Porter is baffling because one cannot ...

The formal symbolism is so patent and so "very old" (as Miss Porter says in her foreword) that it is a quickly assumed bond between her and us. Her use of "this simple almost universal image of ...

I often address her as “Porter.” A host of her fellow writers and others speak of her and to her as “Katherine Anne,” with or without a basis of intimacy. Somewhat like Jane Austen ...