Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (born 1890)

Katherine Anne Porter

American journalist, fiction writer, and political activist (1890–1980)

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 the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she…