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When she was two Porter’s mother died and the family moved in with her paternal grandmother Catherine Anne Porter. Porter later changed her name to honor her grandmother.

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She became a Roman Catholic at the end of her life

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She was married 5 times

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she won pulitzer prize for fiction and the national book award

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She miscarried several times

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She was an American journalist

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Katherine Anne Porter's reputation as an important American 20th Century writer rests on the stories included in her Collected Stories

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She lived in Mexico for a while

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When she was two Porter’s mother died and the family moved in with her paternal grandmother Catherine Anne Porter. Porter later changed her name to honor her loving grandmother

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She re-married 5 times

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Apparently her main goal in writing was to warn everyone about the rise of nazism.

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At 16 she ran away and got married

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She won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer prize in 1966.

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She won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1965

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She died in Maryland on September 18th 1980.

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Considered herself to be the 1st native Texan who became a professional writer.

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Had a best selling novel called ship of fools

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She claims to have thrown out trunk loads of manuscripts and only publishing her best.