Indian creek (1890-1892)
Catharine Ann Skaggs Porter (1892)
The fiery furnace (Autumn 1892-Autumn 1902)
Adolescence (Autumn 1902-Spring 1906)
Marriage (Spring 1906-February 1914)
The wild dash for Texas (February 1914-May 1918)
Apocalypse in Denver (May 1918-October 1919)
Greenwich Village (October 1919-October 1920)
Revolutionary Mexico (October-December 1920)
Adventure and betrayal in Mexico (January-August 1921)
Mexican bounty: the end of an apprenticeship (August 1921-September 1923)
Friends and lovers in New York and Connecticut (September 1923-April 1927)
Boston and Salem: witch-hunts and ancestors (April 1927-August 1928)
Escape to Bermuda (August 1928-Spring 1930)
Relinquishing Mexico (Spring 1930-August 1931)
The German interval (August 1931-January 1932)
Paris, Madrid, Basel (February-December 1932)
Paris (December 1932-January 1936)
Going home (January 1936-April 1938)
Transition from marriage to independence (April 1938-December 1941)
"Ah, the house...the house" (January 1941-August 1942)
South hill and Washington, D.C. (August 1942-January 1945)
California (January 1945-September 1949)
New York City and France: the end of something (September 1949-September 1952)
Michigan and Belgium (September 1952-February 1955)
Ship of fools: the end of a long voyage (February 1955-September 1961)
Success and failure in the aftermath of a novel (September 1961-December 1966)
Spring Valley and College Park (January 1967-December 1971)
Return to Texas (January 1972-May 1976)
The last candles (May 1976-September 1980).