Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Creepy! Katherine Anne Porter kept the coffin in which she would later be buried inside her closet. (Source)
Porter is a very distant relative of the famous short story writer O. Henry (his real name was William Sidney Porter). (Source)
Not-so-great Gatsby: Porter didn't like F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing one bit and said that he wrote about characters with "perfectly stupid meaningless lives." (Source)
Can you imagine getting married during junior year of high school? Porter probably could. She married her first husband at age sixteen. (Source)