39c Katherine Anne Porter single

Object Details

Date
May 15, 2006
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
Place
United States of America
Topic
Contemporary (1990-present)
Literature
Women's Heritage
Political Figures
U.S. Stamps
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Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Data Source
National Postal Museum
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)
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm84823c3cb-2bfe-43af-a92a-5c57ccf8c958
Record ID
npm_2006.2026.141