Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (15 Mayıs 1890 - 18 Eylül 1980), Kurgu dalında Pulitzer Ödülü sahibi Amerikalı gazeteci, makale yazarı, kısa öykü yazarı, romancı ve siyasi eylemci. 1962 yılında yayımlanan Ship of Fools  romanı ABD'de en çok satan roman olmuştur. İhanet, ölüm ve kötülüğün kökeni gibi karanlık temalı eserler kaleme almıştır.

Ödülleri
1966 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories (1965)
1966 – National Book Award for The Collected Stories (1965)
1967 – Gold Medal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature
2006 – Porter was featured on a United States postage stamp issued May 15, 2006.  She was the 22nd person featured in the Literary Arts commemorative stamp series.

Çalışmaları

Kısa Öykü Koleksiyonu
Flowering Judas, (Harcourt, Brace: 1930).
Flowering Judas and Other Stories, (Harcourt, Brace: 1935).
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Harcourt, Brace: 1939).  
The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, (Harcourt, Brace: 1944). 
The Old Order: Stories of the South, (Harcourt, Brace: 1955).  
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, (Harcourt, Brace: 1964).

Romanları
Ship of Fools, (Little, Brown, & Co.:1962). (American film, 1965).

Kurgu Olmayan Eserler
The Days Before, (Harcourt, Brace: 1952).  Includes many of Porter's book reviews, critical essays, memoirs, etc.
The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter, (Delacorte: 1970).

Ölümünden Sonra Yayınlananlar
Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, (Atlantic Monthly Press: 1990), edited by Isabel Bayley.  Includes portions of over 250 letters Porter wrote to over sixty correspondents between 1930 and 1966.
"This Strange, Old World" and Other Book Reviews Written by Katherine Anne Porter, (University of Georgia Press, 1991), edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue.  Includes almost 50 of the book reviews Porter published in various periodicals during her lifetime.
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter (University of Texas Press: 1993), edited by Ruth M. Alvarez and Thomas F. Walsh.  Includes twenty-nine of Porter's prose works of fiction and nonfiction, not included in earlier published editions.
Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry (University of South Carolina Press: 1996), edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue.  Includes all thirty-two of the poems Porter published in periodicals during her lifetime.
Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America: 2008).  Includes the full text of "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter" (Harcourt, Brace 1964) as well as many of the pieces that were included in her two previous collections of nonfiction.
Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman (University Press of Mississippi: 2012), edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue.  Includes over 130 complete letters Porter wrote to over seventy correspondents between 1916 and 1979.

Diğer Yayınlar
My Chinese Marriage by Mae Franking, ghostwritten by Porter (Duffield & Co: 1921).  
Outline of Mexican Popular Arts and Crafts, (Young & McCallister: 1922).
Katherine Anne Porter's French Song Book (Harrison of Paris: 1933).  
A Christmas Story, (Delacorte: 1967).  
The Never-Ending Wrong (Little, Brown, & Co.: 1977).

Kaynakça

Dış bağlantılar 
Papers of Katherine Anne Porter housed at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland Libraries

Brief biography at Perspectives in American Literature 
Katherine Anne Porter at American Masters (PBS) 
Photos of the first edition of Porter's Pulitzer Prize winning book 
Official site of Porter's childhood home in Kyle, TX
Stuart Wright Collection: Katherine Anne Porter Papers (#1169-009), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University 

1895 doğumlular
1980 yılında ölenler
Teksas doğumlu yazarlar
Kurgu dalında Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri
20. yüzyıl Amerikalı roman yazarları
20. yüzyıl Amerikalı hikâye yazarları
Amerikalı yazarlar
Pulitzer Ödülü alan yazarlar
20. yüzyıl Amerikalı kadın yazarlar
Amerikalı kadın yazarlar
Pulitzer Ödülü sahipleri
Pulitzer Ödülü sahibi kadınlar