New Releases by Katherine Anne Porter

Letter written to Mrs. Beam thanking her for "reading, enjoying and approving my "Ship of Fools", and commenting on her understanding of the characters. She thanks Mrs. Beam for recommending her book to the Nobel Prize Committee, "the first person in my entire career to do so" ... She comments ""I have been on the list sonce 1962 ... It is a kind of lottery it has very little to do with merit ... the only good thing about it now is that extremely useful money." Signed and inscribed photograph of herself enclosed.

Anthology of the distinguished American author''s essays, biographical memoirs and poems on such diverse subjects as Thomas Hardy, marriage, the creative process and Dylan Thomas.

A number of Porter''s finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel "Old Mortality" from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.