Author: Katherine Anne Porter Name: Lauren O’Neal Date: 11/10/2010 Author: Katherine Anne Porter Name: Lauren O’Neal Date: 11/10/2010

 She was born in India Creek, Texas in  She became self reliant at an early age because she lost her mother.  She married John Henry Koontz when she was 15 years old. This marriage lasted 9 years.

 She was born with the name Callie Russell Porter.  She was raised by her father and paternal grandmother, Catharine Ann Skaggs Porter.  Porter's father always said that he was a descendent of Daniel Boone.

 She got married multiple times.  She became involved in revolutionary politics in Mexico  In 1926 she married her 2 nd husband Ernest Stock. Her third husband was Eugene Dove Pressly.  He became the model for the character of David Scott in “Ship of Fools.”  In 1938 she married her fourth husband, Albert Erskine.

 During her early twenties she moved from Texas to Chicago and back to Texas. She worked as an actress and a singer.  She died at the age of 90 in 1980

 Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry  Letters of Katherine Anne Porter  Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels  Ship of Fools  The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Influences Her Grandmother Shakespeare Living in Mexico

 Joan Givner  Harold Bloom  Mark Busby  George Hendrick

 World War One  World War Two  The Great Depression

 They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not." "You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence." "It is a man's world, and you men can have it." "There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own." "Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled." "A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being."

 Digging post holes changed a woman. Riding country roads in the winter when women had their babies was another thing: sitting up nights with sick horses and sick children and hardly ever losing one of them! John would see that in a minute, that would be something he could understand, she wouldn’t have to explain anything!

 It made her feel like rolling up her sleeves and putting the whole place to rights again. No matter if Cornelia was determined to be everywhere at once, there were a great many things left undone on this place. She would start tomorrow and do them. It was good to be strong enough for everything, even if all you made melted and changed.

 This narrative is in no way structured into a coherent, logical presentation of events. It frequently jumps back into time to the main characters' past experiences. During the story she has numerous flashbacks to her younger day. This happens while she is talking to the doctor. All of this comes up because her daughter Cornelia thinks that she can’t hear or understand so she whispers behind her back.

 Author, By. "Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist." Web. 10 Nov  anne-porter/about-katherine-anne-porter/686/ anne-porter/about-katherine-anne-porter/686/  Katherine Anne Porter Life Stories, Books, & Links." Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History. Web. 12 Nov  "Katherine Anne Porter." The Alamo Colleges - Homepage. Web. 12 Nov  "Katherine Anne Porter Biography - Life, Childhood, Children, Story, Death, School, Mother, Young, Book, Old, Information, Born, Siblings, House, Marriage, Year." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Web. 14 Nov

When and where was Porter born?

 India Creek, Texas in 1890

 What year did she die?

 1980

 Name one thing that influenced Porter

 Shakespeare, Living in Mexico, and her Grandmother

 Name one person that Porter influenced

 Joan Givner, Harold Bloom, Mark Busby, and George Hendrick

 Name a major work of hers

 Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry, Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels, Ship of Fools, and The Jilting of Granny Weatherall