1Daniel Aron, Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism, New York: Harcourt,Brace & World, 1961, p.284.
2Janis P. Stout, Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Time, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p.273, p.274, p.271.
3Joan Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (Revised edition, 1982), Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991, p. 332, p. 258, p. 102.
4Katherine Anne Porter to Marcelle Sibon, March 25, 1963, Mckeldin Library, College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Press.
5Katherine Anne Porter to Samuel Duff McCoy (of Dial Press), Jan. 12, 1951; McKeldin Library, College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Press.
6The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O' Connor,ed. Sally Fitzgerald, New York: Farrar, Straus,Giroux, 1979, p. 275.
7The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter, ed. Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, New York: Delacorte Press, 1970, p.98.
8Robert Penn Warren, Uncorrupted Consciousness: The Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Yale Review55, 1965, p.280.
9Paul Porter, Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship, ed. Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark, College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990, pp.25-37.
