Ship of Fools (85 page)

Porter on board a ship with other passengers returning to New York after her second trip to Mexico, June 1922.

Porter dressed as a local in Mexico City, circa June–September 1923.

Porter, circa 1929. This formal portrait, probably taken in New York City, nicely captures the author of literary reviews, poetry, essays, and fiction.

Porter in the garden of the house she shared with Eugene Pressly in a suburb of Mexico City, during her last extended residence in Mexico.

Porter in September 1931 on board the ship on which she traveled from Mexico to Germany. This journey provided the inspiration for her novel,
Ship of Fools
.

The author in Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, April 1932. After a four-month residence in Berlin, Germany, Porter was in Paris briefly before joining Eugene Pressly in Basel, Switzerland, from June to December 1932.

Porter in the Notre Dame des Champs residence in Paris that she shared with Eugene Pressly from April 1934 to October 1936.

Porter and her father, Harrison Boone Porter, in Hays County, Texas, July 1937. Porter had returned to Texas for her father's eightieth birthday.

Porter with Mexican carved coconut banks and a pre-Columbian vessel in Mexico, 1964.

Porter, circa April 1965, in the garden of the large Washington, DC, home she rented from June 1964 to May 1969. Photograph by her nephew, Paul Porter Jr.

Porter holding a key to the Katherine Anne Porter Room at the University of Maryland on May 15, 1968. Photograph by Bill Clark, University of Maryland.

Porter on May 15, 1975, on the balcony of the College Park apartment where she lived from May 1970 to March 1980. Photograph by Paul Porter.

All images are courtesy of the University of Maryland Libraries.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Earlier versions of some scenes from this novel have been published in
Accent
,
Atlantic Monthly
,
Harper's
,
Mademoiselle
,
Partisan Review
,
Sewanee Review
, and
Texas Quarterly
.

Copyright © 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1962 by Katherine Anne Porter

Cover design by Mauricio Diaz

ISBN: 978-1-5040-0353-7

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