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Katherine Anne Porter was an admired American short-story writer, a miniaturist whose polished, ironic prose could compress a great deal into just a few pages. She published only one novel, the bestselling Ship of Fools, but her reputation rests on three slender volumes of stories—Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower—and later The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
