Unrue, Darlene Harbour

Collected stories and other writings by Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 989 libraries worldwide
A complete volume of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author's short stories includes a selection of definitive essays as gathered from her 1952 collection, The Days Before, as well as additional works from her early and later years.

Truth and vision in Katherine Anne Porter's fiction by Darlene Harbour Unrue ( Book )
8 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 844 libraries worldwide

Katherine Anne Porter : the life of an artist by Darlene Harbour Unrue ( Book )
6 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 787 libraries worldwide
"From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. She maintained, though, that a germ of her own experience lies at the core of everything she wrote." "In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil. Porter's maternal grandmother was institutionalized; Porter had more marriages than she ever acknowledged; she lost babies to miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth, and she grieved over her failed motherhood. Ever-present were her fears of exile and insanity." "With unprecedented access to archival and personal papers, Unrue brings much new information to light. The biographer argues that the sources of Porter's deepest suffering were her early encounters with death, her fear of abandonment, her worry that she would inherit the "melancholia" that plagued both sides of her family, and her guilt at failing to produce children." "Despite these constant fears, Porter (1890-1980) lived an extraordinary life that vaulted her from poverty and obscurity to wealth and the fame of being a best-selling author. She experienced or observed many of the major events of the twentieth century. So often on the move, she lived in Greenwich Village during its heyday as a hotbed of radical politics and experimental art, in Mexico during the cultural revolution of the 1920s, in Europe during the rise of Nazism, and in America during the Cold War. Thirteen years old when she first rode in an automobile and saw an airplane, she was invited in her last decade to observe and write about the launching of the final Apollo space ship. Asked to summarize her own life, Porter was fond of quoting Madame Du Barry: "My life has been incredible. I don't believe a word of it!""--BOOK JACKET.

Critical essays on Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 765 libraries worldwide
A collection of essays that examine the writings of twentieth-century American author Katherine Anne Porter, including reviews and critical analyses of her fiction and non-fiction works.

Understanding Katherine Anne Porter by Darlene Harbour Unrue ( Book )
7 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 610 libraries worldwide

This strange, old world and other book reviews by Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 388 libraries worldwide

Katherine Anne Porter's poetry by Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
4 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 357 libraries worldwide
Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry makes available for the first time the complete poetic canon of one of America's most-celebrated writers. Widely known and revered for her award-winning short stories, Porter published just thirty-two poems and poetry translations during her lifetime, although she composed - and subsequently destroyed - hundreds. Her poetry is virtually unknown even by her most devoted followers. From fragmentary notes and letters found among Porter's papers, Darlene Harbour Unrue has recovered and edited eighteen unpublished poems. In a significant addition to the Porter canon, these newly found poems join Porter's published verse - including the entire text of the now-rare Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book - to create a unique commentary on the writer's life and work.

Katherine Anne Porter remembered ( Book )
5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 270 libraries worldwide

Collected stories and other writings ( Book )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

This strange old world : and other book reviews by Katherine Anne Porter ( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide