Katherine Anne Porter

Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three short novels by American author Katherine Anne Porter published in 1939. While these three short novels "Old Mortality," "Noon Wine" and the eponymous "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," have been described as novellas, Ms Porter referred to them as short novels. Ms Porter, in the …

Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter, telling the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German passenger ship. The large cast of characters includes Germans, a Swiss family, Mexicans, Americans, Spaniards, a group of Cuban medical students, and a Swede. In …