Catherine Anne Warfield met with strong reception. After the Civil War, Warfield published eight more novels, all under her own name. The two most popular were "Ferne Fleming" (1877) and its sequel "The Cardinal's Daughter" (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel. She died in 1877. Walker Percy's novel "Lancelot" bears a resemblance to "The Household of Bouverie." Despite Walker's disclaimer, both the Percy biographer Bertram Wyatt-Brown and his nephew William Armstrong Percy, III believe that he based the novel, so different from his others, on his predecessor's work. Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. "Collected Stories", in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in "Flowering Judas"; "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"; and "The Leaning Tower". In the preface "Go Little Book ...", Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do