David Dick
David Dick spent nearly two decades as a globetrotting CBS correspondent during the golden age of television news. Then he moved home to Bourbon County and launched several new careers. […]
Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace, the daughter and granddaughter of Louisville journalists, knew early that writing was the best way for her to express herself and her values. But she thought it would […]
Gray Zeitz
Gray Zeitz thinks the best way to experience a poem is to hear it read aloud. But he has focused his career on the second-best way. “The second-best is to […]
Mike Mullins
Mike Mullins didn’t start the Appalachian Writers Workshop; Hall of Fame writer Albert Stewart did that. He didn’t teach at the workshop; Hall of Fame writers Harriette Simpson Arnow, James […]
A.B. Guthrie
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. moved to Kentucky in 1926 to become a reporter for the Lexington Leader, where he was to spend the next 17 years as city editor, editorial writer, and […]
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was among Kentucky’s most versatile writers and personalities in the first half of the 20thcentury. He was a journalist, essayist, syndicated columnist, novelist, poet, script writer, actor, […]
Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie attracted national attention not only as a songwriter and performer, but for her work popularizing traditional Appalachian ballads, many of which had their roots in the British Isles […]
Alice Hegan Rice
Alice Hegan Rice published 20 books between 1901 and 1942, but she is best known for her first: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a best-selling novel inspired by her work […]
Harlan Hubbard
Harlan Hubbard’s realization that industrialism and consumerism posed a threat to the environment and human survival changed his life forever. So did his marriage to Anna Eikenhout in 1943. “They […]
James Lane Allen
James Lane Allen, one of Kentucky’s first best-selling novelists, was widely read in the United States and Great Britain in the late 19thand early 20thcenturies. His writing is considered part […]
