The works of Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), American writer, were characterized by delicate perceptions and painstaking craftsmanship. Katherine Anne Porter was born on May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas. She was a descendant of Jonathan Boone, bro...

Katherine Anne Porter's literary reputation rests on the twenty-seven stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on the best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962), on which she worked intermittently for thirty years. She was one of the most brillia...

Katherine Anne Porter 's literary reputation rests on the twenty-seven stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on the best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962), on which she worked intermittently for thirty years. She was one of the most brilli...

Anyone who has taught "Flowering Judas" realizes how challenging it can be. With layer upon layer of subtext and symbol, it is a story that simultaneously attracts and frustrates, a quality that renders it a singularly appropriate introduction to Porter's work and to...

The newly revealed "Gospel of Judas" (scare quotes because it's neither a gospel nor the work of Judas) is fascinating less as a theological bombshell and more because it shows how soon after the life of Jesus people of theological sensibility were poking their...