The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short stories, including “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower, as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 09/19/1979
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.34w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780156188760

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 34
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86377 / Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter


Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

About the Author
Porter, Katherine Anne: - Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned American author of short stories and essays. Best known for her short story collections and the novel Ship of Fools, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal Award for Fiction.