Today is the birthday of Katherine Anne Porter (right), shown here with fellow Award Winner Janet Flanner (left) at the 1966 National Book Awards. Porter won the Fiction Award that year for her Collected Stories and was a Finalist twice previously: in 1953 for The Days Before (Nonfiction) and in 1963 for Ship of Fools (Fiction).
Photo by Wagner International Photos
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Janet Flanner and Katherine Anne Porter, 1966
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