Saying Katherine Anne Porter lived a hard life would be an understatement; her mother died when Porter was 2 years old and her father became neglectful, so she was raised primarily by her grandmother, per The New York Times. She married young and was a victim of domestic violence.
She almost died — twice — from two different pandemics, and endured poverty and infertility. Many of her hardships are evident in her writing, which often explores human fallibility.
The Indian Creek native wrote a short story collection, “Flowering Judas and Other Stories,” in 1935. She later won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for “The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.”
She also wrote a novel, “Ship of Fools,” which was later turned into a film of the same name starring Vivien Leigh in her last on-screen role, according to