BORN CALLIE RUSSELL PORTER IN
INDIAN CREEK, KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
MOVED TO HAYS COUNTY WITH HER
FAMILY FOLLOWING HER MOTHER'S
DEATH IN 1892.  SHE LEFT TEXAS IN
1915 AND WORKED AS AN ACTRESS,
TEACHER, REPORTER, AND PUBLICIST IN
SUCH PLACES AS CHICAGO, DENVER,
MEXICO,AND NEW YORK.  HER FIRST
BOOK OF SHORT STORIES WAS PUB-
LISHED IN 1930.  HER ACCLAIMED 1962
NOVEL,"SHIP OF FOOLS", WAS FOL-
LOWED BY THE PULITZER PRIZE-
WINNING "THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER" IN 1965. UPON
HER DEATH IN 1980, HER ASHES WERE
BURIED NEXT TO HER MOTHER'S
GRAVE IN INDIAN CREEK CEMETERY.
(1990)