Volume 29, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1983
Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Katherine Anne Porter: A Life
by Joan Givner
Simon and Schuster, 572 pp., $19.95
A woman who, when nearing fifty, finds a handsome, talented man of twenty-seven coaxing her into marriage might well become the subject of an interesting story. If she was born in a two-room log house but persuaded her admirers that she grew up in a mansion occupied by four generations of family (along with old retainers), she may deserve a documented account. If she also struck Robert Penn Warren as a writer of stories 'unsurpassed in modern fiction,' we may hope for a detailed study.[1]
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