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Chapter 4 Literature Between Two World Wars The Southern Literature;  Her Life : 1. 1890-1980 2. She was born in Indian Creek , Texas. But she grew up in Hays County, Texas. She was the fourth of five children of her family. Part of her childhood she spent also in Louisiana. 3. In 1892, when Porter was two years old, Porters mother died two months after giving birth to her last child. Porters father took his four surviving children (an older brother had died in infancy) to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Texas. The depth of her grandmothers influence can be inferred from Porters later adoption of her name. 4. In 1906, at age sixteen, Porter left home and married John Henry Koontz. Koontz was physically abusive, once while drunk, he threw her down the stairs, breaking her ankle. They divorced officially in 1915. 5. Also in 1915, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the following two years in sanatoria, where she decided to become a writer. 6. In 1917, she began writing for the Fort Worth Critic, critiquing dramas, and writing society gossip. 7.Between 1920 and 1930, Porter traveled back and forth between Mexico and New York City and began publishing short stories and essays. Her first published story was Maria Concepcion in The Century Magazine. 8. In 1930, she published her first short story collection, Flowering Judas and Other Stories 9. In 1962, she published her only novel, Ship of Fools, which was the best-selling novel in America for that year; its success finally gave her financial security (she reportedly sold the film rights for $400,000). 10. Porter died in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 18, 1980, at the age of 90, and her ashes were buried next to her mother at Indian Creek Cemetery in Texas. Her Reputation 1. American essayist, short story writer, and journalist, remembered as one of Americas best short-story writers. 2. 1966 — Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Stories (1965) 3. 1966 — Nati