Katherine Anne Porter, best known for her novel "Ship of Fools," was an inveterate traveler--a cosmopolitan jet-setter in the days before jets. But she was of humble origins, born in 1890 in the tiny hamlet of Indian Creek, Texas, and christened Callie Russell Porter. For most of her life she maintained a stormy relationship with her home state. That relationship is documented in a book published by Texas A&M University Press in 1990, the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's birth.
Edited by Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark, "Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: ""An""...