Katherine Anne Porter remembered / edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unrue, Darlene Harbour.

Series:

American writers remembered.

American writers remembered

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.

Porter, Katherine Anne.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980--Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex American writer. From a fractured and vagabond girlhood in Texas, Porter led a wildly itinerant life that took her through five marriages, innumerable love affairs, and homes in Colorado, New York, Paris, Mexico, Louisiana, California, and Maryland. With very little formal education, she grew through sheer force of will to become a major American writer of short stories and

Contents:

Texas and Colorado, 1890-1919

New York, Connecticut, and Mexico, 1920-1931

Europe, Texas, and Louisiana, 1932-1940

New York, Washington, DC, and California, 1941-1951

New York, Europe, Michigan, Virginia, and Washington, DC, 1952-1961

New York, Washington, D.C, and Maryland, 1962-1973

Texas and Maryland, 1974-1981.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8458-8

OCLC:

664233658