Eudora

Introduction Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the influential authors of her age. She has won several prizes; including the Pulitzer Prize. Apart from her literary identity, she is also known as a political activist. She has been widely influenced from the literary atmosphere of 20th. century. She was born in a wealthy southern family. Her southern ancestry and childhood played an important role in her literary identity. In The Norton Anthology of…

Jones (1921-1977), From Here to Eternity (1951) Herman Wouk (1915- ), The Winds of War (1971) Southern Writers Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980) Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)’s novel Wise Blood (1952), short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)’s novel All the King’s Men (1946) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He received Pulitzer Prizes for poetry twice. He is only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…