Callie Russell Porter (who later changed her first name to Katherine Anne) was born in a log cabin in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1890. Her travels of the early 1900s took her from revolution-torn Mexico to Berlin, Germany, to Paris, France. It was not until she moved to Paris in 1933 that she began to make use of her Texas past, returning in fiction to the world of her childhood in Noon Wine. Several decades later, after receiving high acclaim for her novel Ship of Fools (1962), Porter won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965). Along with her latest work, the collection included previously released stories such as Noon Wine.
Swedish immigration. Although Swedes had been coming to America as early as 1638, the number of new Swedish immigrants swelled between 1868 and 1873 (103,000) and again between 1880 and 1893 (475,000). The exodus of the late 1800s represented about a fourth of Sweden's total population. The primary motive behind this mass emigration from Sweden was overpopulation. In the early 1800s, a sustained period of peace, the introduction of a vaccine for smallpox and increased production of potatoes in Sweden led to a doubling of the population from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.
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