Katherine Anne Porter
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| Born | Callie Russell Porter May 15, 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 1980 (aged 90) Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1920–1977 |
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Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.