Katherine Anne Porter Museum

Porter had three more unsuccessful marriages. She traveled extensively--living for a time in Mexico, Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. After her return from Europe in 1936, she wrote Noon Wine (1937) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (1939). Her only novel, Ship of Fools, was published in 1962.

She won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965). She received several honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. Henry Memorial Award, the first Annual Gold Medal for Literature, and the Emerson-Thoreau Gold Medal for Fiction. Porter published her last book in 1977. The Never-Ending Wrong was a memoir of the Saco-Vanzetti case. Shortly after its publication, she suffered several strokes.

Katherine Anne Porter died on September 18, 1980, in Silver Springs, Maryland.

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