Two years after her death the publication of Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (1982) made long-needed corrections in the biographical record. Coincidentally, the growing volume and sophistication of feminist criticism was providing new insights into women writers and their works. A climate had been created in which an understanding of the art and life of Katherine Anne Porter could finally be achieved.
Born Callie Russell Porter in a small log house on a dirt farm in the central Texas community of Indian Creek, she was the fourth of five children of Mary Alice Jones Porter and Harrison Boone Porter. Her mother died before she was two, and the four surviving children (Porter, two sisters, and a brother) were raised by their paternal grandmother, Catherine Anne Porter, in Kyle, Texas. This household, dominated by a strong-willed woman, with Porter's ineffective father reduced to the role of an elder child, shaped her attitude toward gender roles and greatly influenced her aspirations, unusual in a woman of her time, for a career.
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