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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (d. 1980)

Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet 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. In 1966 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.

15 May 1890

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