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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the . National Book Award for Fiction. Collected Stories, in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower. In the preface "Go Little Book.

Katherine Anne Porter. Collected stories and other writings. No part of this book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher.

Katherine Anne Porter s stories have rightly had the highest reputation in America since they first appeared in the early Thirties. Porter s singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life. Katherine Anne Porter's stories have rightly had the highest reputation in America since they first appeared in the early Thirties. Porter's singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life.

Katherine Anne Porter’s novel Ship of Fools (1962) was a sensation at the time, a top best seller that was made into a Hollywood movie with an all-star cast, but today Porter is best remembered and remains influential for her short fiction. Most of it was written in the 1920s and 30s and much of it, like that of her contemporary, Ernest Hemingway, who also didn’t write much more short fiction after the 20s and 30s, was excellent.

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Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter . The Library of America now reprints that landmark volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter?s long-out-of-print short prose.

Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory. Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise.

Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Collected Stories, in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower

Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything.

Katherine Anne Porter is one of America's greatest - and most overlooked - literary talents, and this book is a compilation of her superb short stories. Porter writes with the precision of a master jeweler; every sentence is polished like a gem, every word is perfect

Katherine Anne Porter is one of America's greatest - and most overlooked - literary talents, and this book is a compilation of her superb short stories. Porter writes with the precision of a master jeweler; every sentence is polished like a gem, every word is perfect. From the haunting beauty of "María Concepción" and "Virgin Violeta" to the l "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", Porter writes with an understated, almost stark, precision and elegance. This is a book to be read and savored slowly, a story at a time, to appreciate the awesome talent.

Katherine Anne was an American Pulitzer prize winning journalist, essayist, novelist and a short story writer. This biography profiles her childhood, literary career, life, works, achievements & timeline. awards: 1966 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories 1966 – National Book Award for The Collected Stories 1967 – Gold Medal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2006 – Porter was featured on a United States postage stamp issued May 15 2006.

Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last .