Katherine Anne Porter to American frontiersman Daniel Boone and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter), her father's second cousin. In 1892, when Porter was two years old, her mother died two months after giving birth to her last child. Porter's father took his four surviving children (an older brother had died in infancy) to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Kyle, Texas. The depth of her grandmother's influence can be inferred from Porter's later adoption of her name. Her grandmother died while taking eleven-year-old Callie to visit relatives in Marfa, Texas. After her grandmother's death, the
Mark Porter (writer) a colourful 'career' in Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to Newsweek, Standpoint Magazine, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), Cycle Magazine He is also a food writer (ten years as a contributing editor of "Waitrose Food Illustrated") and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable, a new French restaurant site designed to select the good from the bad in a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly questioned. Mark Porter (writer) Mark Porter (born