Katherine Anne Porter : a life /
"My life has been incredible, Katherine Anne Porter used to say, 'I don't believe a word of it.' Author of the best-selling novel, Ship of Fools, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her short stories, Porter was both the first lady of American letters and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
1991.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | Brown Thrasher books
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| Summary: | "My life has been incredible, Katherine Anne Porter used to say, 'I don't believe a word of it.' Author of the best-selling novel, Ship of Fools, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her short stories, Porter was both the first lady of American letters and a woman whose indomitable will forged a life that, as biographer Joan Givner makes clear, was not only incredible but may have been her most creative fiction of all ... As evocative of her era as it is of the woman herself, this book is a remarkable portrait of an artist who crafted her life to appear as elegant and structured as her short stories and who, in so doing, sometimes edited out of her experience the hard, cold facts that until now have remained obscure. Givner has recovered that experience to reveal the true version of Porter's childhood and family background, her first "hidden" marriage, her innumerable love affairs, her quarrels with Hart Crane and other friends, and her ultimate achievement of wealth and celebrity. For this revised edition, Givner has provided an updated prologue and epilogue, incorporating new material to further illuminate Porter's life and fiction. Givner offers accurate information on Porter's battle with tuberculosis, an account of Porter's betrayal of her close friend Josephine"--Amazon.com. |
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| Item Description: | "Brown thrasher books." |
| Physical Description: | xi, 576 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-554) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0820313483 9780820313481 0820313408 9780820313405 |