The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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]
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
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
- "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
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"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.)
External links
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Herzog Saul Bellow |
National Book Award for Fiction 1966 |
Succeeded by The Fixer Bernard Malamud |