Description: The most thorough gathering of the great American writer's lively correspondence
Review Quotes: Darlene Harbour Unrue's meticulously and expertly edited Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter is the collection of uncut correspondence covering the full range of Porter's life that we have needed for so long. Unrue's judicious selections reveal Porter as an extraordinarily talented and careful epistolary craftswoman whose letters are as entertaining as they are literate. Because her correspondents included many of the leading literary figures of the twentieth century and because her own long life was so eventful, the collection is as valuable as a cultural history as it is as a personal history of the people and incidents that lie behind her remarkable fiction.--Jackson R. Bryer, coeditor of The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder and of The Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill