Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

Birthday: 15 May 1890, Indian Creek, Texas, USA
American writer and novelist Katherine Anne Porter was born at Indian Creek, TX, in 1890. She was raised in Texas and Louisiana, and educated in small convent schools. A writer almost since birth--she started writing at age three, she said, "as soon as I learned to form letters on paper"--she did not attempt to get anything published unti... Show more »
American writer and novelist Katherine Anne Porter was born at Indian Creek, TX, in 1890. She was raised in Texas and Louisiana, and educated in small convent schools. A writer almost since birth--she started writing at age three, she said, "as soon as I learned to form letters on paper"--she did not attempt to get anything published until she was 30. In 1931 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study abroad. Her most famous novel is "Ship of Fools", which was made into a successful film (Ship of Fools (1965)), and one of her short stories, "Noon Wine", has been filmed several times as an episode of various television anthology series.She died in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1980 at age 90, Show less «
[about her writing career] I did not choose this vocation, and if I had any say in the matter, I wou...Show more »
[about her writing career] I did not choose this vocation, and if I had any say in the matter, I would not have chosen it. Show less «
I have written and destroyed manuscripts quite literally b the trunkful. I spent fifteen years wande...Show more »
I have written and destroyed manuscripts quite literally b the trunkful. I spent fifteen years wandering about, weighted horribly with masses of paper and little else. Show less «
As soon as I learned to form letters on paper, at about three years, I began to write stories.
As soon as I learned to form letters on paper, at about three years, I began to write stories.
Ship of Fools
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