From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. In Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil.
This biography captures the incomparable life and times of one of America's finest writers, a Pulitzer-winning author of 27 stories and short novels and one long novel, all acclaimed for their crystalline prose and incisive probing of the human condition.