39c Katherine Anne Porter single

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Object Details

Description

The Postal Service issued a 39-cent Katherine Ann Porter commemorative stamp on May 15, 2006, in Kyle, Texas. Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, designed the stamp.

Considered a master prose stylist, writer Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1966 for the "Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter," which was published in 1965.

Thirty million stamps were printed by offset/microprint "USPS" process. This stamp marked the twenty-second stamp in the Literary Arts Series.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (March 30, 2006).

unused

Credit line

Date

May 15, 2006

Object number

2006.2026.141

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (multicolored) / lithographed

Dimensions

Height x Width: 1 1/16 × 1 5/8 in. (2.7 × 4.2 cm)

Place

United States of America

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Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Contemporary (1990-present)

Literature

Women's Heritage

Political Figures

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm84823c3cb-2bfe-43af-a92a-5c57ccf8c958

Record ID

npm_2006.2026.141