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Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980

Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980. Porter’s life spanned WWI, the Great Depression, World War II, and the rise of the nuclear age Deeply aware of “the heavy threat of world catastrophe” Fiction An effort to grasp meaning

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Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980

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  1. Katherine Anne Porter1890-1980 • Porter’s life spanned WWI, the Great Depression, World War II, and the rise of the nuclear age • Deeply aware of “the heavy threat of world catastrophe” • Fiction • An effort to grasp meaning • “effort to grasp the meaning of those threats, to trace them to their sources, and to understand the logic of this majestic and terrible failure of the life of man in the Western world.” • Stories are often set in the South • Feature characters at pivotal moments in their lives • Dramatic change • Constricting bonds of family • Weight of the past

  2. Katherine Anne Porter • Descendent of Daniel Boone • Born in Texas • Raised in poverty and haphazardly educated in convent schools • “fragmentary, but strangely useless and ornamental education.” • True education • Henry James • T.S. Eliot • Ezra Pound • James Joyce • W.B. Yeats

  3. Porter • Journalist • Traveled • Mexico City • Mexico • Deeply interested in politics and culture • Developed an interest in writing fiction • “María Concepción” (1922) • First story

  4. Porter • Flowering Judas (1930) • First book • Six short stories • Praised by critics • Earned Porter widespread recognition • Noon Wine (1937) • Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) • The Leaning Tower and Other Stories (1944) • Ship of Fools (1962) • Her only novel • Became a popular film • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaViXh361Fc

  5. Porter • The Never-Ending Wrong (1977) • Nonfiction • Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti during the 1920s • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SuTTcj2u8 • Collected Stories (1965) • Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

  6. Porter • “What they show us are human relationships in their constantly shifting phases and in the moments of which their existence is made. There is no place for general reflections; you are to live through the experiences as the characters do.”

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