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Katherine Anne Porter(1890-1980)

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American writer and novelist Katherine Anne Porter was born at Indian Creek, TX, in 1890. She was raised in Texas and Louisiana, and educated in small convent schools. A writer almost since birth--she started writing at age three, she said, "as soon as I learned to form letters on paper"--she did not attempt to get anything published until she was 30. In 1931 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study abroad. Her most famous novel is "Ship of Fools", which was made into a successful film (Ship of Fools (1965)), and one of her short stories, "Noon Wine", has been filmed several times as an episode of various television anthology series.

She died in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1980 at age 90,
BornMay 15, 1890
DiedSeptember 18, 1980(90)
BornMay 15, 1890
DiedSeptember 18, 1980(90)
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Known for:

Stacking (1987)
American Playhouse
7.3
TV Series
  • Writer
Ship of Fools (1965)
Ship of Fools
7.1
  • Writer
  • 1965
ABC Stage 67 (1966)
ABC Stage 67
7.4
TV Series
  • Writer
Kent Taylor in Boston Blackie (1951)
Rebound
7.1
TV Series
  • Writer

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  • The Martyr (2010)
    The Martyr
    • short story
    • Short
    • 2010
  • The Circus
    • short story
    • TV Movie
    • 1990
  • The Fig Tree (1987)
    The Fig Tree
    • story
    • TV Movie
    • 1987
  • American Masters (1985)
    American Masters
    • stories
    • TV Series
    • 1986
  • Stacking (1987)
    American Playhouse
    • story
    • TV Series
    • 1985
  • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1980)
    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
    • story
    • TV Movie
    • 1980
  • ABC Stage 67 (1966)
    ABC Stage 67
    • short novel
    • TV Series
    • 1966
  • Ship of Fools (1965)
    Ship of Fools
    • based on "Ship of Fools"
    • 1965
  • The Wednesday Play (1964)
    The Wednesday Play
    • story
    • TV Series
    • 1964
  • Natalie Wood and Jacques Sernas in Camera Three (1955)
    Camera Three
    • story
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Climax! (1954)
    Climax!
    • story
    • TV Series
    • 1956
  • Kent Taylor in Boston Blackie (1951)
    Rebound
    • story
    • TV Series
    • 1952

Personal details

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  • Born
    • May 15, 1890
    • Indian Creek, Texas, USA
  • Died
    • September 18, 1980
    • Silver Spring, Maryland, USA(undisclosed)
  • Spouses
      Albert Russell ErskineApril 19, 1938 - 1942 (divorced)
  • Other works
    Novel: "Ship of Fools" (filmed as Ship of Fools (1965)).
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 1 Print Biography

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    Appeared in 1915 as an extra in several films for the Essannay Film Company at their studio in Chicago. She landed the gig haphazardly while working on a story for the Chicago Tribune. She had so much fun doing extra work that she kept missing work and the Tribune fired her. However, the studio kept her employed for the next six months, and by the end of her time there, she was making $12 a day.
  • Quotes
    I have written and destroyed manuscripts quite literally by the trunkful. I spent fifteen years wandering about, weighted horribly with masses of paper and little else.

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