Rebecca Caudill
Rebecca Caudill Ayars was one of Kentucky’s best-known children’s writers, having published 23 books between 1934 and 1985. She was the middle child in a family of 10 that lived […]
Sena Jeter Naslund
Sena Jeter Naslund of Louisville is the author of several internationally bestselling novels. She also is an award-winning teacher who helped start and nurture two influential university creative writing programs […]
Albert Stewart
Albert F. Stewart, a poet, teacher, and editor, has been called the “patron saint” of two generations of Appalachian writers. He started what became the annual Appalachian Writers Workshop and […]
John Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles was an author, composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads who had a major influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Niles […]
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren, the nation’s first poet laureate, is the only person to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. He won in 1947 for his novel All the King’s […]
James Still
James Still was a poet, novelist, short story writer and folklorist who was born in Alabama but came to Knott County, Kentucky, as a young man and spent the rest […]
Robert K. Massie III
Robert Kinloch Massie III was a journalist, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who gained fame by writing popular, critically acclaimed books about the House of Romanov, Russia’s imperial family for […]
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts published seven novels, three volumes of poetry, and two collections of short stories. Two novels — The Time of Man (1926) and The Great Meadow (1930) — were Pulitzer Prize contenders. […]
Harry Caudill
Historian, novelist, essayist, and columnist Harry Monroe Caudill’s seminal work was Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area, published in 1963. This book caught the attention of the […]
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown escaped slavery and eventually became an internationally known journalist, historian, lecturer and the first African American novelist and playwright published in the United States. His first piece […]
