Rebecca N. Porter

Rebecca N. Porter was an American educator, author, and journalist. With a career that included newspaper reporting, reviewing movies, and lecturing, she wrote innumerable short stories and articles, as well as novels. Porter was a writing instructor in short stories and novels, under the University of California Extension Division. Scribner's Magazine printed a series of her articles on adult education based primarily on her work with extension students in her classes in short story writing. She published many articles on general subjects and also novels. Her gift for developing craftsmanship in her students was characterized as unusual. It was the books of traveling buyers who stayed at her father's raisin ranch in California which first made Porter want to write.