凯瑟琳·安·波特是美国现代文坛的知名作家,她的作品多以短篇为主。波特出生于美国南部得克萨斯州一个没落的天主教世家。她生性叛逆,早年就读于修道院,不堪忍受家庭和宗教的束缚,16岁时与人私奔,一生经历过三次失败的婚姻。凯瑟琳·安·波特并未接受过正规的大学教育,但她见识广博,20年代在墨西哥担任新闻记者,并卷入左翼政治运动,后移居欧洲瑞士等国,晚年在美国多所大学任教。波特 Catherine Ann Potter is a well-known writer in the modern American literary world. Her works are mainly short stories. Porter was born in Texas, a declining Catholic family in southern United States. Her rebellious nature, early in the monastery, unbearable family and religious shackles, emancipated at the age of 16, life has experienced three failed marriages. Catherine Ann Porter, who had no formal college education, had extensive knowledge and was a journalist in Mexico in the 1920s and was involved in left-wing political campaigns before moving to such countries as Europe and Switzerland. Later in her career she taught at many universities in the United States. Porter