During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American wome
This volume brings together 29 pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appear in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first ti
In the first book-length study of Porter's work, Nance defines a central thematic pattern--a principle of rejection--that unifies her fiction. This study is lar