KatherineAnnePorter



Timeline of life [|timeline] • Personal Life
 * Lived: **(1890-1980)**
 * Originally called: Callie Russell Porter
 * Was raised by her father and grandmother. [|Background info]
 * She attended **convent schools** (catholic schools ran by nuns)
 * First married to John Koontz after running away from a convent at 16
 * She then married Ernest Stock, Eugene Dove Pressly, and Albert Erskine
 * She traveled between **Mexico** and the **United States** as a publicist

• Professional Life
 * Her stories focused on:
 * **religious attidudes** and **issues.**
 * The **complexity**complexity of **characters**characters who **lived in the south**lived in the south.
 * Since of **uncertainty**uncertainty and **disbelief**disbelief (changes in society)
 * **Families** the were **drifting apart** drifting apart (loosing connection
 * Her stories also focused on:
 * **dark** themes such as **betrayal**
 * **death** and the origin of **human evil**

• Major works Plus 30 more published short stories. • Awards won Gold medal for Fiction, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Pulitzer Price, National Book Award ([|Awards]) • Period and/or Style Stream of Consciousness -the capture of the minds random movements. • Favorite Themes
 * 1) "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
 * 2) //Flowering Judas//
 * 3) //Pale horse, Pale rider//
 * 4) //The leaning tower and other stories//
 * 5) //Ship of fools (//Eugene Dove Pressly was the model for the main character)
 * 6) //The Days Before//
 * 7) //"//The never ending wrong//" Last published work//