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Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965) won the Pulitzer Prize. This collection contains the best of Porter's short stories.

Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (1939) contains "Noon Wine"—one of her most talked-about stories that deals with evil—and "Old Mortality" and the title piece, both of which are narrated through the eyes of Miranda, a female protagonist that Porter used in many of her short stories. Many critics believe this to be Porter's best collection.

Although Porter enjoyed writing short stories more than novels, after thirty years of working on it, Ship of Fools (1962) was published and became an instant bestseller. The story is short on action, but the psychological depth of her characters makes this book a very fascinating read.

Porter was a prolific letter writer, and much of her correspondence has been collected in Letters of Katherine Anne Porter (1990), edited...
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