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Noon Wine is a 1937 short novel written by American author Katherine Anne Porter. It was published in 1939 as part of Pale Horse, Pale Rider (ISBN 0-15-170755-3), a collection of three short novels by the author, including the title story and "Old Mortality." A dark tragedy about a farmer's act of futile murder which leads to suicide, the story takes place on a small dairy farm in Southern Texas during the 1890s. It has been filmed twice for television in 1966 and 1985.