The Old Order: Stories of the South

Porter was praised for writing with an especially human style. The Old Order contained many short stories that would win her a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1966. This collection of stories served to further her fame and increase her popularity. These stories provided a window into life in the American south at the turn of the twentieth century.^[6]

Literary critic Howard Moss in The New York Times Book Review commented:

The closest thing to a spokesman Porter allows herself is a woman called Miranda...found in the eight reminiscences of the South that were originally published in The Leaning Tower."—Literary critic ^[7]

• Unrue, Darlene Harbour. 1997. Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter. Editor, Darlene Harbour Unrue. G. K. Hall and Company, New York. ISBN 0-7838-0022-3
• Unrue, Darleen Harbour. 2008. Editor in Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings. Literary Classics of the United States (Compilation, notes and chronology), New York. The Library of America Series (2009). ISBN 978-1-59853-029-2
• Davis, Barbara Thompson. 1963. Katherine Anne Porter: The Art of Fiction (interview) (Winter-Spring 1963). The Paris Review. Retrieved January 2, 2023. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4569/the-art-of-fiction-no-29-katherine-anne-porter Retrieved January 2, 2023.
• Moss, Howard. 1965. The Collected Stories: A Poet of the Story in Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter (1997). Editor, Darlene Harbour Unrue. G. K. Hall and Company, New York. ISBN 0-7838-0022-3
• Schwartz, Edward. 1953. Katherine Anne Porter: A Critical Bibliography. The Folcroft Press, Inc., Forcroft, PA. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, May 1953. ISBN 9780841475823