Kentucky
has
a
rich
literary
tradition
with a strong emphasis of living life on the land.
Barbara Kingsolver
...
serving as a Naval doctor. Both he and Barbara’s mother were
natives of Kentucky and soon after Barbara was born
they returned home. ...
Wendell Berry
...
written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in
this world and in my native and chosen place." Wendell Berry
was born in Newcastle, Kentucky, 1934. ...
Allen Tate
... born in 1899 in Winchester, Kentucky.
His father's business interests, mostly lumber, land and
stock, forced the Tates to move often. ...
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905
and remained a resident of the South until his late
thirties. It would be the ...
Barbara Kingsolver's
Prodigal Summer
... By
entwining three stories of evolving relationships within a
larger tapestry of life in the Appalachian mountains of
Kentucky, Kingsolver reminds us...
Silas
House
Born and raised in Lily,
Kentucky ... currently, House is a professor at Eastern Kentucky
University...
Bobbie Ann Mason
|
She graduated from the University of Kentucky in
1962 with a degree in Journalism and ... Mason
writes about the working-class people of western
Kentucky. ... |
