Katherine Anne Porter Remembered

Texas and Colorado, 1890–1919

1 texas and Colorado, 1890–1919 Although for many years not much was known publicly about the first three decades of Katherine Anne Porter’s life—years of loss, vagabondage, illness, bad marriages, poverty, and struggles to gain an artistic foothold—reminiscences by her sister Gay, neighbors at indian creek, and her friend erna schlemmer Johns unveil her childhood years. Kitty barry crawford pulls back the curtain on Porter ’s battles with tuberculosis and nearly fatal influenza in 1918. beniti mcelwee and rosalind Gardner (who shared their recollections with Pauline naylor), unnamed persons who recalled Porter to Paul crume, and former Rocky Mountain News colleagues who shared their memories with Kathryn Adams sexton reveal Porter’s important writing apprenticeship in fort Worth, dallas, and denver. insights into Porter’s complex personality and sources of some of her most significant stories and short novels are discovered in the process. ...