Letters of Katherine Anne Porter - Hardcover

Porter, Katherine Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871132869 ISBN 13: 9780871132864

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Selected letters between Porter and fellow writers trace her development as a writer and reveal her outlook on life

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

From the thousands of letters Porter wrote during her major working years, 1930-1963, a close friend here selects those that biographically portray the distinguished American writer (1890-1980). An introduction, "who's who" and brief headnotes to the 12 chronological sections relate the correspondence to Porter's friendships with Hart Crane, Caroline Gordon, J. F. Powers, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and Glenway Wescott, among other writers; to her family, lovers, editors and publishers; to the origin and development of "Flowering Judas," "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "The Leaning Tower" and Ship of Fools. The letters reveal a gracious, generous, loving nature, so different (except in her dismissal of Leslie Fiedler as patronizing, dishonest, inferior and mischievous) from what one reads of Porter in the books of others.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0871132869
• ISBN 13: 9780871132864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 642
• Editor: Bayley Isabel