Katherine Anne Porter

Biography

Katherine Anne Porter (1890 – 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, and political activist. She wrote several books, primarily short story collections such as Flowering Judas (Harcourt Brace, 1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Harcourt Brace, 1939), and The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (Harcourt Brace, 1944). Her first and only novel, Ship of Fools (Little, Brown, and Company), was published in 1962.

See Work

FICTION / Autumn 1932

Hacienda

By Katherine Anne Porter

We hung our heads out of the window every time the train stopped, raising false hopes in the hearts of the Indian women, who ran along beside us even after the train was moving away. “Fresh pulque!” they urged mournfully, holding up jars of...

FICTION / Spring 1935

The Grave

By Katherine Anne Porter

The grandfather, dead for more than thirty years, had been twice disturbed in his long repose by the constancy and possessiveness of his widow. She removed his bones first to Louisiana and then to Texas, as if she had set out to find her...

Winter 1935

Two Plantation Portraits

By Katherine Anne Porter
Summer 1934

That Tree

By Katherine Anne Porter