Bibliograph

Katherine Anne Porter, a life, Joan Givner

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Katherine Anne Porter, a life, Joan Givner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Katherine Anne Porter

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

8667791

Responsibility statement

Joan Givner

Sub title

a life

Summary

Recounts Katherine Anne Porter's rise from Texas log-cabin poverty to a position as a well-known short story writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, stressing her stamina, wit, and determination

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The Porter Family History: Legend, Memory, Whimsy, and Applejack -- Born to the Practice of Literature -- Adolescence: The Old Order Changeth -- That Preposterous First Marriage -- The Ungodly Struggle -- Death and Rebirth in Denver -- Greenwich Village and Mexico City: A Very Growing Season -- Getting Ready to be a Writer -- The Foreign Land of Massachusetts -- The Fabulous Year -- Farewell to Mexico -- The German Experience -- Paris, Madrid, Basle, Paris: Once I Followed a Husband All Over Europe -- Paris -- Pennsylvania, New York, Louisiana, Texas -- A House of My Own -- The Love of a Lifetime -- California: A Perpetual Homesickness for Just Anywhere Else on Earth -- Disciples Must Be Very Hard for a Mere Human Being to Endure -- University Teaching: Transmitting Something of Value -- I Am Really Old Now and ... Time Is Running Out -- Ship of Fools: The Last Stretch -- The Aftermath of Ship of Fools: I Was Happier Before -- Two Kinds of Success -- The Rewards of Success -- The Final Chapter

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