Katherine Anne Porter Remembered

by Unrue, Darlene Harbour

• ISBN13: 9780817316679
• ISBN10: 0817316671
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-13
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Katherine Anne Porter Rememberedis 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 the author of several books including Flowering Judasand other stories ; Ship of Fools; Pale Horse; Pale Ride; Noon Wi≠and The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Because of Porter’s own dissembling and half-truths about her life, as well as the numerous factual errors that persist in biographical entries and literary dictionaries, a complete and accurate portrait of her life has been hard to establish. The 63 reminiscences gathered in this book paint a vivid portrait of Porter and are testaments to her extraordinary beauty, her gift for mesmerizing and charming audiences and friends, her yearnings for a lasting home, her delusions about love, the astonishing range and scope of her reading, her sharp tongue and vindictiveness, and her final paranoid renunciations of friends and family. Along the way, Porter formed friendships with Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick, Flannery O’Connor, and Cleanth Brooks whose remembrances of her are included in this volume.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Texas and Colorado, 1890-1919	p. 7
Anna Gay Porter Holloway	p. 9
Donald Stalling	p. 13
Willene Hendrick	p. 15
Erna Schlemmer Johns	p. 20
Paul Crume	p. 22
Pauline Naylor	p. 25
Kathryn Adams Sexton	p. 29
Kitty Barry Crawford	p. 32
Newyork, Connecticut, and Mexico, 1920-1931	p. 35
W. H. Cowles	p. 37
J. Edgar Hoover	p. 40
Josephine Herbst	p. 42
Matthew Josephson	p. 46
Robert Plunkett	p. 48
Elizabeth Anderson	p. 50
Winifred Hill	p. 52
Europe, Texas, and Louisiana, 1932-1940	p. 55
Glenway Wescott	p. 57
Toni Willison	p. 66
Paul Porter	p. 68
Breckenridge Porter	p. 79
Cleanth Brooks	p. 81
Eudora Welty	p. 84
John Edward Hardy	p. 98
Newyork, Washington, Dc, and California, 1941-1951	p. 103
Marcella Comès Winslow	p. 105
Eleanor Clark	p. 113
William Goyen	p. 118
Richard Scowcroft	p. 121
Isabel Bayley	p. 123
John Malcolm Brinnin	p. 133
Elizabeth Spencer	p. 135
Newyork, Europe, Michigan, Virginia, and Washington, DC, 1952-1961	p. 137
Elizabeth Hardwick	p. 139
Seymour Lawrence	p. 143
David Locher	p. 145
Jeanne Rockwell	p. 151
Barbara Thompson Davis	p. 154
Rita Johns	p. 165
Flannery O'Connor	p. 168
James Ruoff	p. 171
Newyork, Washington, DC, and Maryland, 1962-1973	p. 179
Frederic Prokosch	p. 181
E. Barrett Prettyman	p. 184
John Prince	p. 191
Michael Scott	p. 197
Enrique Hank Lopez	p. 201
William R. Wilkins	p. 206
Kathleen Feeley	p. 211
Maura Eichner	p. 216
Clark Dobson	p. 218
M. M. Liberman	p. 223
Texas and Maryland, 1974-1981	p. 229
Charlotte Laughlin	p. 231
Joseph Gallagher	p. 241
Ted Wojtasik	p. 244
Jane DeMouy	p. 253
Lynn Darling	p. 259
List of Reminiscences	p. 263
Notes	p. 267
Works Cited	p. 291
Index	p. 301
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