Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
Auteur de The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
A propos de l'auteur
Katherine Anne Porter is known for her subtle and delicate perception; her careful, disciplined technique; and her precision of word and phrase. She wrote slowly and with restraint but achieved an impression of ease and naturalness that is close to perfection. She was born in Texas, schooled in afficher plus Louisiana convents, and, working as a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, traveled to such places as Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, and Mexico. Her Collected Stories (1965), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1966, was written over a long lifetime. It includes works that have been a standard part of high school and college literature courses for a half-century. Among the best are "Noon Wine," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and "Flowering Judas." "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," long enough to be considered a novelette, is one of several stories about a character named Miranda who as a girl and young woman undergoes experiences not unlike those of Porter. Other Miranda stories are "Old Mortality" and a group of seven gathered under the title "The Old Order" that deal with her childhood. Her one and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools (1962), 20 years in the writing, "is the story of a voyage... . A novel of character rather than of action, it has as its main purpose a study of the German ethos shortly before Hitler's coming to power in Germany... ."Ship of Fools' is also a human comedy and a moral allegory" (New Yorker). To some critics, the book was a disappointment, but all recognized its importance and it appeared on the bestseller list for 28 weeks in 1962. "In my view," wrote Robert Penn Warren in a tribute published in Saturday Review after Porter's death in 1980, "the final importance of Katherine Anne Porter is not merely that she has written a number of fictions which have enlarged and deepened the nature of the story, both short and long, in our time, but that she has created an oeuvre---a body of work including fiction, essays, letters, and journals---that bears the stamp of a personality, distinctive, delicately perceptive, keenly aware of the depth and darkness of human experience, delighted by the beauty of the world and the triumphs of human kindness and warmth, and thoroughly committed to a quest for meaning in the midst of the ironic complexities of man's lot." Much of the nonfictional part of that body of work was gathered into The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Katherine Anne Porter
Pale horse, pale rider : the selected short stories 7 exemplaires
Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories 3 exemplaires
The Grave 2 exemplaires
Selected Short Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter 2 exemplaires
A Day's Work 2 exemplaires
Flowering Judas [short story] 2 exemplaires
María Concepción 2 exemplaires
[No title] 1 exemplaire
Brod budala 1 exemplaire
Bolondok hajj̤a : regňy 1 exemplaire
The Collected Stories of Katherin Anne Porter 1 exemplaire
Antologia do conto moderno — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The 27 Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter 1 exemplaire
Essays, Reviews, and Other Writings 1 exemplaire
Porter, Katherine Anne Archive 1 exemplaire
Bianco cavallo, bianco cavaliere e altri racconti 1 exemplaire
Det skæve tårn 1 exemplaire
Old Order - Stories Of The South From Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider And The Leaning Tower (1972) 1 exemplaire
Fakó ló fakó lovasa : elbeszélések és kisregények 1 exemplaire
Rope 1 exemplaire
Theft 1 exemplaire
He 1 exemplaire
They Trample on Your Heart 1 exemplaire
Outline of Mexican popular arts and crafts 1 exemplaire
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Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Many-Colored Fleece: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Catholic Fiction (2022) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Reading in English for Students of English as a Second Language (1961) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1937) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Fiesta in November; stories from Latin America, selected and edited by Angel Flores and Dudley Poore, with an… (1942) — Préface, quelques éditions — 6 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Porter, Callie Russel
- Autres noms
- Porter, Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russel
- Date de naissance
- 1890-05-15
- Date de décès
- 1980-09-18
- Lieu de sépulture
- Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Indian Creek, Texas, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
New York, New York, USA
Mexico City, Mexico
Berlin, Germany (tout afficher 9)
Paris, France
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Kyle, Texas, USA - Études
- self-educated
- Professions
- short-story writer
novelist
essayist
journalist
translator
literary critic (tout afficher 7)
ghostwriter - Relations
- Erskine, Albert (husband)
Taylor, Peter Hillsman (friend) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1941)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice-president, 1950-52) - Prix et distinctions
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1962)
Gold medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1967)
Creative arts award, Brandeis University (1971-72)
Postage stamp, US Postal Service (2006)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 64
- Aussi par
- 80
- Membres
- 4,505
- Popularité
- #5,566
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 72
- ISBN
- 139
- Langues
- 10
- Favoris
- 20
really slow plots and no characters to connect with.
The book begins by displaying a stereotypical narrative of lazy and watermelon eating negroes,
then quickly advances to the opposite with the tales of Grandmother and Aunt Nannie.
Nannie originally was gifted to Grandmother as a slave, then emancipated.
Their friendship and sewing were a joy to read, as was Nannie's eventual freedom to live alone and happy.… (plus d'informations)