Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Anne Porter (born May 15, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas , † September 18, 1980 in Silver Spring , Maryland ; born Callie Russell Porter ) was an American journalist and writer. In 1966 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the anthology The Collected Stories .

biography

Porter was born the fourth of five children to Harrison Boone Porter and Alice Jones Porter. Her mother, a teacher, died giving birth to her last child; her father was unable to provide for the family. Porter grew up with her grandmother, who died when she was twelve; the father gave the four children to different relatives. At the age of 16, Porter married the alcoholic son of a wealthy landowner to escape the family regime and dropped out of school. She was mistreated several times by him and divorced after five years. Porter lived from 1914 to 1920 as a freelance journalist, musician and magazine writer in Chicago, New York and Texas. In the years 1920 to 1930 she made extensive trips to Mexico. She spent the last years of her life in Texas.

Katherine Anne Porter's Kyle childhood home, now a museum, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 .

In 1930 six of her stories, previously published in various magazines, were published in the anthology Flowering Judas and Other Stories . This debut volume of her collected stories, mainly from rural North America, made Katherine Anne Porter an instant literary celebrity. In 1962, The Ship of Fools , the novel "that a whole generation has been waiting for thirty years," as the New York Times wrote. The book - the depiction of a voyage from Veracruz (Mexico) to Bremerhaven by Spanish workers, German remigrants and tourists of various nationalities in 1931 - was made into a film in 1965 under the direction of Stanley Kramer with Vivien Leigh and Heinz Rühmann in leading roles and made them wealthy . In 1966, Porter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Katherine Anne Porter, who was married a total of five times, died at the age of 90 in 1980 in Maryland, USA. Her ashes were buried in her hometown Indian Creek cemetery next to her mother's grave.

In 1941 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2006, the American Post issued a stamp in her honor. The Katherine Anne Porter Museum is located in the writer's former home in Kyle , Texas.

Works

Short stories and collections

  • Maria Concepcion , 1922
  • The Martyr , 1923
  • Virgin Violeta , 1924
  • Hey , 1927
  • Magic , 1928
  • Rope , 1928
  • Theft , 1929
  • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall , 1930; Filming: USA 1980 (TV)
  • Flowering Judas and Other Stories , 1930 (German. Under hot skies . Stories. Bad Wörishofen: Kindler and Schiermeyer, 1951; retransmission into German under the title Blühender Judasbaum , 1964)
  • The Cracked-Looking-Glass , 1932 (Eng. The cracked mirror . Stories. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983)
  • Hacienda , 1934
  • The Downward Path to Wisdom , 1939
  • The Leaning Tower , 1941
  • The Leaning Tower and Other Stories , 1944 (Eng. The Leaning Tower . Bad Wörishofen: Kindler and Schiermeyer, 1953)
  • The Source , 1944
  • The Journey , 1944
  • The Witness , 1944
  • The Circus , 1944; Filming: USA 1990 (TV)
  • The Last Leaf , 1944
  • A Day's Work , 1944
  • The Grave , 1944
  • The Old Order , 1958
  • The Fig Tree , 1960; Filming: USA 1987 (TV)
  • Holiday , 1960
  • The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter , 1965
  • A Christmas Story , 1967 (dt. A Christmas Carol Olten. Walter, 1969)
  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider (German pale horse, pale rider . 3 novellas. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1986)
  • The last sheet. 1953
  • The sufferings of our mortality. Stories. Leipzig: Reclam, 1977
  • The purple hat and other tales. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1986

Novellas

  • Old Mortality , 1937
  • Noon Wine , 1937;
  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider , 1939 (German The Dark Song . Munich: Desch, 1950);

novel

Essays

  • The Necessary Enemy , 1948
  • The Future is Now , 1950
  • The Days Before , 1952 (German: What was before. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1968)
  • The Never-Ending Wrong , 1977
  • The Charmed Life , 1942

Film adaptations

literature

  • Elke Schmitter: Katherine Anne Porter: All the crooked wood. In: Verena Auffermann, Gunhild Kübler, Ursula March, Elke Schmitter: Passions. 99 women authors of world literature. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01048-8 , pp.  444-448 .
  • Robert H. Brinkmeyer: Katherine Anne Porter's Artistic Development . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1993, ISBN 0-8071-1822-2 .
  • Farrell O'Connor, keyword Katherine Anne Porter in Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, Bryan Giemza: Southern Writers. A New Biographical Dictionary . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 2006, ISBN 0-8071-3123-7 .
  • John Edward Hardy: Katherine Anne Porter . Ungar, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8044-2351-2 .
  • Edward Schwartz: Katherine Anne Porter: A critical bibliography . New York Public Library, New York, NY 1953; Norwood Editions 1978, ISBN 0-8414-7582-2 .
  • Darlene H. Unrue: Understanding Katherine Anne Porter . University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 1988, ISBN 0-87249-583-3 .
  • Darlene H. Unrue: Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2005.
  • Joan Givner: Katherine Anne Porter: A Life . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Ludwig Arnold: "Kindlers Literature Lexicon." In: "JB Metzler (Hrsg.) (= 3. No. 13). JB Metzler, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , pp. 181-182.
  2. ↑ Members: Katherine Ann Porter. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Porter, Katherine Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porter, Callie; Porter, Callie Russell (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Indian Creek , Texas
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1980
Place of death Silver Spring , Maryland