Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter "writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory." Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, "many are unsurpassed in modern fiction," and when gathered in one volume in 1965 they won their author both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Library of America now reprints that landmark volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter's long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Go Little Book Flowering Judas and Other Stories María Concepción Virgin Violeta The Martyr Magic Rope He Theft That Tree The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Flowering Judas The Cracked Looking-Glass Hacienda Pale Horse, Pale Rider Old Mortality Noon Wine Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Leaning Tower and Other Stories The Old Order The Source The Journey The Witness The Circus The Last Leaf The Fig Tree The Grave The Downward Path to Wisdom A Day’s Work Holiday The Leaning Tower ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND OTHER WRITINGS “I needed both . . .” Critical The Days Before Reflections on Willa Cather A Note on The Troll Garden Gertrude Stein: Three Views “Everybody Is a Real One” Second Wind The Wooden Umbrella “It Is Hard to Stand in the Middle” Eudora Welty and A Curtain of Green The Wingèd Skull On a Criticism of Thomas Hardy E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf D. H. Lawrence Quetzalcoatl A Wreath for the Gamekeeper “The Laughing Heat of the Sun” The Art of Katherine Mansfield The Hundredth Role Dylan Thomas “A death of days . . .” “A fever chart . . .” “In the morning of the poet . . .” A Most Lively Genius Orpheus in Purgatory In Memoriam Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) James Joyce (1882–1941) Sylvia Beach (1887–1962) Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) Personal and Particular On Writing My First Speech “I must write from memory . . .” No Plot, My Dear, No Story “Writing cannot be taught . . .” The Situation of the Writer The Situation in American Writing Transplanted Writers The International Exchange of Writers The Author on Her Work No Masters or Teachers On “Flowering Judas” “The only reality . . .” “Noon Wine”: The Sources Notes on the Texas I Remember Portrait: Old South A Christmas Story Audubon’s Happy Land The Flower of Flowers A Note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté A House of My Own The Necessary Enemy “Marriage Is Belonging” A Defense of Circe St. Augustine and the Bullfight Act of Faith: 4 July 1942 The Future Is Now The Never-Ending Wrong Mexican Why I Write About Mexico Reports from Mexico City, 1920–1922 The New Man and the New Order The Fiesta of Guadalupe The Funeral of General Benjamín Hill Children of Xochitl The Mexican Trinity Where Presidents Have No Friends In a Mexican Patio Leaving the Petate The Charmed Life Corridos Sor Juana: A Portrait of the Poet Notes on the Life and Death of a Hero A Mexican Chronicle, 1920–1943 Blasco Ibanez on “Mexico in Revolution” Paternalism and the Mexican Problem La Conquistadora ¡Ay, Que Chamaco! Old Gods and New Messiahs Diego Rivera These Pictures Must Be Seen Rivera’s Personal Revolution Parvenu . . . History on the Wing Thirty Long Years of Revolution Autobiographical About the Author The Land That Is Nowhere

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