The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

First edition cover
Author Katherine Anne Porter
Country United States
Language English
Genre Short stories
Publisher Harcourt Brace
Publication date
1965
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[1] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2]

Collected Stories, in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower. In the preface "Go Little Book ...", Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do not need to describe anything." She went on to say "Please call my works by their right names: we have four that cover every division: short stories, long stories, short novels, novels."

References

  1. "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
  2. "National Book Awards – 1966". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
    (With acceptance speech by Porter and essays by Mary Gaitskill and H.L. Hix from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

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Awards
Preceded by
Herzog
Saul Bellow
National Book Award for Fiction
1966
Succeeded by
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud


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