Katherine Anne Porter
(May 13, 1890 - September 14, 1980)
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Marker Text: Katherine Anne Porter, one of America's Most distinguished writers of fiction, was born Callie-Russell Porter in Indian Creek, Brown County, Texas. Her mother Mary Alice Jones Porter, died in 1892, and her father Harrison Boone Porter (1858-1942), returned with the children to his native Hay County to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Skaggs Porter (1826-1901).
Porter spent her childhood in Kyle and attended the public schools here. Following a brief failed marriage, she left Texas in 1915. She went to Chicago and using the name she adopted from her grandmother, became a journalist she traveled throughout the world and began her writing career. Porter's first book of short stories, 'Flowering Judas and other stories', was published in 1930. Considered a preeminent writer of short stories, she published another collection, 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider' in 1939. Her acclaimed 1962 novel "Ship of Fools" was followed by Pulitzer prize-winning "The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter" in 1965. Porter returned to Texas to visit her former homes in her later years and according to her request, upon her death her ashes were interred next to her mother's grave in the Indian Creek Cemetery. (1990) |
Marker No: 10310
Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject
National Register of Historic Places (house)
Geographic: 29.989334,-97.880135
Location: 508 Center Street, Kyle
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