Rejection in Life Katherine Anne Porter is regarded as one of the leading modern writers of short stories. Born on May 5, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas as the great-great-great- granddaughter of the famous American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter was educated at various schools. In the 1920's and 1930's, she contributed articles to several newspapers while living in New York City, Louisiana, California, and Washington D.C., as well as Mexico and Western Europe. Miss Porter's first …showed first 75 words of 1019 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1019 total…the reader to sympathize with her characters and actually allow the reader to relate the story to personal life experiences of rejection. Works Cited Porter, Katherine Anne. "The Circus." The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. New York: Dell, 1934. 21-9. - - -. "The Downward Path to Wisdom." The Leaning Tower and Other Stories. New York: Dell, 1934. 81-111. McGhee, Richard D. "Katherine Anne Porter." Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 5. Boston: Salem, 1993.