Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small
body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters.
The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to
seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written
from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter
dictated to an unnamed nursing-home attendant in Maryland.
Different from any previous selection, this body of letters does
not omit Porter's frank criticism of fellow writers and spans her
entire life. Within that circumscription is the chronicle of
Porter, a twentieth-century woman searching for love while she
struggles to become the writer she is sure she can be.
Porter's letters vividly showcase the twentieth century as the
writer observes it from her historical vantage points--tuberculosis
sanatoria and the influenza pandemic of 1918; the leftist community
in Greenwich Village in the 1920s; the Mexican cultural revolution
of the 1920s and early 1930s; the expatriate community in Paris in
the 1930s; the rise of Nazism in Europe between the World Wars; the
Second World War and its concomitant suppression of civil
liberties; Hollywood and the university circuit as a haven for
financially strapped writers in the 1940s and 1950s; the Cold War
and its competition for supremacy in space; the Women's Rights and
the Civil Rights movements; and the evolution and demise of
literary modernism.
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