Katherine Anne Porter

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May 15, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas, The United States

died

September 18, 1980

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Literature & Fiction

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Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is known for her penetrating insight; her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil.
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Average rating: 3.95 · 2,949 ratings · 288 reviews · 23 distinct works

	The Collected Stories 4.05 avg rating — 1,070 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider 3.98 avg rating — 574 ratings — published 1939 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Ship of Fools 3.68 avg rating — 622 ratings — published 1962 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Flowering Judas': Katherine Anne Porter 3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Old Order: Stories of the South 4.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1955	My rating:
	The Leaning Tower And Other Stories 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings	My rating:
	Noon Wine 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Letters of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Never-Ending Wrong 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	The Days Before 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

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“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

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“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

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