As per our current Database, Katherine Anne Porter is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Katherine Anne Porter is 133 years, 10 months and 13 days old. Katherine Anne Porter will celebrate 134rd birthday on a Wednesday 15th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Katherine Anne Porter upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Katherine Anne Porter |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | May 15, 1890 (Texas) |
Birthday | May 15 |
Town/City | Texas |
Nationality | Texas |
Katherine Anne Porter’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Katherine Anne Porter was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
An American novelist, journalist, and essayist, she is known for her best-selling 1962 novel, Ship of Fools. For her 1965 work, The Collected Stories, she won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
She worked briefly as an extra in movies while living in Chicago. She later returned to her home state of Texas, where she continued working as an actress.
She nearly lost her life as a result of the 1918 influenza epidemic.
She and her four siblings were born in Indian Creek, Texas and were descendants of frontiersman Daniel Boone and cousins of writer O. Henry. She was married four times but had no children.
She once claimed to have married Hart Crane.