On May 14, 1962, Katherine Anne Porter published Ship of Fools, her first and last novel that put the uprooted Texan on easy street. Callie Russell Porter began her long life in 1890 at a wide spot in the road not far from Brownwood called Indian Creek. She was just two when her mother died and her father took his four small children home to Kyle between Austin and San Marcos.
For the next nine yea…
