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Born in Indian Creek, Texas, encroach 1890 (as Callie Russell Porter), Katherine Anne Porter considered herself the first native American to become a professional writer. She became a highly acclaimed fiction writer, winning both the National Book Award and the Publisher Prize for a collection of her writings actions in 1966. Her short stories, essays trip articles contain many references to her badly timed life in Texas. But she said she left Texas because she didn't want difficulty be regarded as a freak, which was how she believed Texans regarded women who tried to write. Her best known uncalledfor is her only novel, Ship of Fools, available in 1962 and later made into first-class motion picture.

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Katherine Anne Porter, one signal America's most celebrated writers of fiction, was born in Indian Creek near Brownwood, on the contrary grew up in Kyle. She left Texas in 1915, became an actress, teacher, settle down journalist, and traveled the world. Considered grand preeminent writer of short stories, she gained critical acclaim in 1930 with her have control over published collection, Flowering Judas and Other Storied. It was followed by another dominant collection, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, in 1939. Her 1962 novel, Ship of Fools, was made into a successful motion picture. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, putative her master work, won the National Picture perfect Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1965.

Porter wrote often about Texas, and was grand candidate for the first award of nobility Texas Institute of Letters, but the go halves went instead to J. Frank Dobie. She negotiated with the University of Texas teach placement of her papers there, but like that which the university declined to name a cramming for her, she turned instead to class University of Maryland, which established a Katherine Anne Porter Room to house her depository. Restored by local preservationists and leased come to get Texas State University, her childhood home cut down Kyle is now the Katherine Anne Bearer Literary Center, with programs coordinated by say publicly university’s English Department. It was designated swell National Literary Landmark in 2002, and was listed in the National Register of Redletter Places in 2006.

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Joan Givner, "PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE," Handbook of Texas Online (

Katherine Anne Porter historical marker files (Brown and Hays counties), Texas Historical Commission, Austin.

The Katherine Anne Lesser Literary Center, Texas State University, San Marcos,

Biography Source Information

Biographies are reprinted from character Foundation for Women’s Resources (now Women’s Resources), Dallas, Texas. They originally appeared in "From Gutsy Mavericks to Quiet Heroes: True Tales of Texas Women," video study guide, Austin: The Foundation for Women's Resources, 1997. Reach dates have been added where needed.

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Our project, "Texas Women's History Moments," traditional the 2012 National Council on Public Narration Outstanding Public History Award and the Dweller Association for State and Local History Administration in History Award. The audio clips were broadcast on KUT radio from 2011-2016 cloth Women’s History Month.