{"product_id":"katherine-anne-porter-the-life-of-an-artist-willie-morris-books-in-memoir-and-biography-9781578067770","title":"Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2005 Eudora Welty Prize  From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922  the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. She maintained  though  that a germ of her own experience lay at the core of everything she wrote.  In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist  Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porters deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil. With unprecedented access to archival and personal papers  Unrue brings much new information to light. Porters maternal grandmother was institutionalized; Porter had more marriages than she acknowledged; she lost babies to miscarriage  abortion  and stillbirth  and she grieved over her failed motherhood. Ever present were her fears of exile and insanity.  Despite these constant fears  Porter (18901980) lived an extraordinary life that vaulted her from poverty and obscurity to wealth and the fame of being a best-selling author. She experienced or observed many of the major events of the twentieth century. So often on the move  she lived in Greenwich Village during its heyday as a hotbed of radical politics and experimental art  in Mexico during the cultural revolution of the 1920s  in Europe during the rise of Nazism  and in America during the Cold War. Thirteen years old when she first rode in an automobile and saw an airplane  she was invited in her last decade to observe and write about the launch of the final Apollo spaceship. Asked to summarize her own life  Porter was fond of quoting Madame Du Barry: My life has been incredible. I dont believe a word of it!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652946747445,"sku":"ByrdShop_1578067774","price":34.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781578067770.jpg?v=1781854266","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/katherine-anne-porter-the-life-of-an-artist-willie-morris-books-in-memoir-and-biography-9781578067770","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}