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Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)

RESOURCES:

Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Katherine Anne Porter.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	*porter* Perform the basic search.	Provides a number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	*katherine anne porter* JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections.	Provides a number of revelant documents.
Contemporary Authors	*katherine anne porter* Perform the default (author) search.	Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive list for further reading about the author.
Encyclopedia Britannica	*katherine anne porter* Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	*katherine anne porter* Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text."	Provides a number of relevant items.
Literature Resource Center	*katherine anne porter* Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles.	Provides a large number of quality documents.
MagillOnLiterature	*katherine anne porter* Perform the default search.	Provides a number of relevant items.
Research Library Complete	*katherine anne porter* Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library."	Provides a number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on each of the links: PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE: American Writers PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE: Modern American Women Writers	Provides an essay about the author and her works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	*katherine anne porter* Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a small number of quality items.
Story Finder	*katherine anne porter* Perform the "Basic Search."	Provides a number of full-text articles, stories, and poems by the author.
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Porter, Katherine Anne link.	Provides a small number of quality items.

SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.

To find works written by Katherine Anne Porter, do a catalog search for katherine anne porter and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.
Guide to American literature from Emily Dickinson to the present
PS203C27
Location: Troy-FWR

Notable American Novelists
Location: eBook

Catholic women writers [electronic resource] : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook
Location: eBook

The Martyr
Location: eBook

From Texas to the world and back : essays on the journeys of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531 .O752 Z62 2001
Location: Troy, AL

Critical essays on Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531 .O752 Z54 1997
Location: Montgomery

Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531 .O752 Z69 1986
Location: Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter and Texas : an uneasy relationship
PS3531.O752 Z716 1990
Location: Troy, AL

The Texas legacy of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531.O752 Z825 1991
Location: Troy, AL

The fiction and criticism of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531 .O752 Z78 1957
Location: Phenix City

Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter, refugee from Indian Creek
PS3531 .O752 Z76 1981
Location: Phenix City

Katherine Anne Porter : conversations
PS3531.O752 Z465 1987
Location: Dothan

Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531.O752 Z48 1990
Location: Troy, AL

The fiction and criticism of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531.O752 Z78
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter & the art of rejection
PS3531.O752 Z79 1967
Location: Dothan

The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531.O752 A6 1965
Location: Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter; a critical symposium
PS3531.O752 Z67
Location: Dothan, Phenix City

The collected essays and occasional writings of Katherine Anne Porter
PS3531.O752 A6 1970
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter and Carson McCullers : a reference guide
Z8705.7 .K53
Location: Phenix City

Katherine Anne Porter : a collection of critical essays
PS3531.O752 Z715 1979
Location: Dothan, Phenix City

Katherine Anne Porter : a life
PS3531.O752 Z64 1982
Location: Dothan

Strategies of reticence : silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion
PS374 .S54 S76 1990
Location: Montgomery

Katherine Anne Porter : a sense of the times
PS3531 .O752 Z815 1995
Location: Montgomery

Flowering Judas and other stories
PS 3531 O752 F46 1935
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Pale horse, pale rider; three short novels
PS3531.O752 P3 1939
Location: Dothan

The leaning tower, and other stories
PS3531.O752 L4 1944
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The days before
PS3531.O752 D3 1952
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Ship of fools
PS3531.O782 S5X
Location: Troy, AL

The days before
PS3531.O752 D3 1971
Location: Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter's fiction
PS3531.O752 Z75
Location: Troy, AL

Katherine Anne Porter's women : the eye of her fiction
PS3531.O752 Z55 1983
Location: Dothan

Truth and vision in Katherine Anne Porter's fiction
PS3531.O752 Z83 1985
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Katherine Anne Porter's artistic development : primitivism, traditionalism, and totalitarianism
PS3531.O752 Z53 1993
Location: Montgomery

SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kaporter.htm
Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.awomanaweek.com/porter.html
Katherine Anne Porter Society
http://www.lib.umd.edu/Guests/KAP
Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.famoustexans.com/katherineanneporter.htm
American Masters – Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/porter_k.html
PAL: Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/porter.html
Porter, Katherine Anne
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/porter368-au-.html
University of Maryland Katherine Anne Porter Collection
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ARCV/litmss/kap.html
American Literature Online Resources, Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/porterbio.html
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/porter.html