Katherine Anne Porter(1890-1980)
- Writer
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 (Das Narrenschiff (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,
She died in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1980 at age 90,
