AKA Callie Russell Porter

Born: 15-May-1890
Birthplace: Indian Creek, TX
Died: 18-Sep-1980
Location of death: Silver Spring, MD
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated, Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek, TX

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ship of Fools

Father: Harrison Boone Porter
Mother: Mary Alice Jones Porter (d. 1892)
Husband: John Henry Koontz (m. 1906, separated 1914, div. 1915)
Husband: Ernest Stock (m. 1926, div. 1927)
Husband: Eugene Pressley (m. 1930, div. 1938)
Husband: Albert Russel Erskine, Jr. (m. 1938, div. 1942)

    High School: Thomas School, San Antonio, TX (1904, private Methodist school, one year)

    Emerson Thoreau Medal 1962
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1966 for Collected Stories
    National Book Award for Fiction 1966 for Collected Stories
    Converted to Catholicism 1906
    Stroke
    Hysterectomy 1927
    Risk Factors: Gonorrhea

Author of books:
Flowering Judas (1930, short stories)
Noon Wine (1937)
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939, short stories)
The Leaning Tower (1944, short stories)
The Days Before (1952, essays)
Ship of Fools (1962, novel)
Collected Stories (1965, short stories)
The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)

Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #4030 (39 cents, issued 15-May-2006, Literary Arts Series)

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