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Katherine Anne Porter

1890 - 1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in the United States that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. In 1966, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Katherine Anne Porter is the 3,659th most popular writer (up from 3,920th in 2019), the 5,284th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,089th in 2019) and the 409th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 3,659 out of 7,302. Before her are Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Nonius Marcellus, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Carmen Laforet, and Peter Andreas Heiberg. After her are Etgar Keret, Julius Obsequens, Jean Rotrou, Alaa Al Aswany, Alexandru Macedonski, and Lisa Tetzner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 149. Before her are Karl Freund, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Thomas Tien Ken-sin, Erich Weinert, and Boris Delaunay. After her are Elmer Niklander, Traugott Herr, Joachim von Kortzfleisch, Tibor Szamuely, Elia Abu Madi, and Moa Martinson. Among people deceased in 1980, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 164. Before her are Sanjay Gandhi, Jan Werich, Dorothy Day, Terence Fisher, Boris Delaunay, and Jean Robic. After her are Ángel Sanz Briz, Fatmawati, Rachel Roberts, Pyotr Masherov, Marcel Langiller, and Allan Pettersson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 5,284 out of 20,380. Before her are Valerie Perrine (1943), Lewis Boss (1846), Ed Koch (1924), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), Joan Blondell (1906), and Rosalind E. Krauss (1941). After her are Jeezy (1977), Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), Robert Montgomery (1904), Sable (1967), Lauren German (1978), and James Crafts (1839).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Katherine Anne Porter ranks 409. Before her are James Russell Lowell (1819), Brandon Sanderson (1975), L. J. Smith (1965), Gary Snyder (1930), William Goldman (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853). After her are David Foster Wallace (1962), Robert B. Spencer (1962), James A. Michener (1907), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), and Steve Berry (1955).

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