“Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.”

"Katherine Anne Porter" (p. 299)
American Fictions (1999)

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Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916–2007

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