 In addition, she published two novels with Houghton-Mifflin, "All-Bright Court" (1991), and "Imani All Mine" (1999).Porter spent her childhood and youth growing up in Lackawanna, New York, a small city just outside Buffalo in the Baker Housing project with her family.Her parents, who survived the Great Depression, raised a family of ten, the children spread 23 years apart, and lived on a meager fixed income, experiencing hard times.