Katherine Anne Porter

Overview

Katherine Anne Porter born Indian Creek, TX May 15, 1890 (d. 1980). Lifelong pacifist writer, Pulitzer Prize 1966.

Quotations

"If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too." ("The Situation in American Writing," 1939, in The Days Before, 1952; photo Wikipedia)