Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor Porter's life and career
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Katherine Anne Porter
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 the United States 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…
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culture · American journalist and writer (1890–1980) · journalist · novelist · essayist · writer · screenwriter · also Katherine Anne Porter, Callie Russell Porter, Porter
Born 15 May 1890 · Died 18 September 1980 · Q236958
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1990· 1 entry
1980· 2 entries
At the age of 90, and her ashes were buried next to her mother at Indian Creek Cemetery in Texas
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Died 1980-09-18.
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1977· 1 entry
Published The Never-Ending Wrong, an account of the notorious trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, which she had protested 50 years earlier
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1966· 5 entries
Awarded National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1966).
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1966).
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Porter donated her literary papers to the University of Maryland
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Was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the U
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Was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U
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1962· 2 entries
Won Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1962).
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Awarded O. Henry Award (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
The Ford Foundation granted Porter $26,000 over two years
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1943· 1 entry
And was a writer-in-residence at several colleges and universities, including the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia
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1942· 1 entry
Reportedly after discovering that she was 20 years his senior
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1940· 2 entries
Porter was a visiting lecture at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont alongside W
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From the Society of Libraries of New York University
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1938· 1 entry
Upon returning from Europe, she divorced Pressly and married Albert Russel Erskine, Jr
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1936· 1 entry
After being sold to the Italian shipping line Lloyd Triestino
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1935· 1 entry
And received such critical acclaim that it alone virtually assured her place in American literature
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1931· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1931).
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1930· 1 entry
Published her first short-story collection, Flowering Judas and Other Stories
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1924· 1 entry
Porter had an affair with Francisco Aguilera that resulted in pregnancy
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1920· 1 entry
Went to work for a magazine publisher in Mexico, where she became acquainted with members of the Mexican leftist movement, including Diego Rivera
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1919· 1 entry
Porter moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and made her living ghost writing, writing children's stories and doing publicity work for a motion picture company
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1918· 1 entry
Wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado
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1917· 1 entry
Began writing for the Fort Worth Critic, critiquing dramas and writing society gossip
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1915· 2 entries
Asked that her name be changed to Katherine Anne Porter as part of her divorce decree
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Was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the following two years in sanatoria, where she decided to become a writer
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1914· 1 entry
Escaped to Chicago, where she worked briefly as an extra in movies
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1906· 1 entry
At the age of 16, Porter left home and married John Henry Koontz in Lufkin, Texas
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1904· 1 entry
Attended the Thomas School, a private Methodist school in San Antonio, Texas
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1892· 1 entry
When Porter was two years old, her mother died two months after giving birth
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-05-15.
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