Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was a nationally popular poet from Louisville in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Most of his poetry was about nature, extolling […]
Richard Taylor
Richard Lawrence Taylor, a sixth-generation Kentuckian who lives near Frankfort, is the author of 12 books of poetry, two novels and four books of nonfiction. His primary material has been […]
Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman is a prolific playwright, screenwriter and novelist who since the early 1980s has been one of the best-known writers in American drama. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, […]
Mary Lee Settle
Mary Lee Settle, who spent much of her childhood in Pineville, Kentucky, wrote 23 books, including 15 novels. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award for Fiction in […]
Paul Brett Johnson
As a University of Kentucky student, studying art and special education, Paul Brett Johnson enrolled in a class about writing for children. But it would take another two decades, during […]
Billy C. Clark
Billy C. Clark wrote memoir, fiction and poetry about his life and river culture along the Kentucky-West Virginia border, where the Big Sandy flows into the Ohio at Catlettsburg. His […]
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama (2002), is a playwright, musician, novelist, essayist and performer who has been called one of the […]
George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe, one of the most celebrated playwrights and directors in theater and film, is more famous as a director than a writer. The Frankfort native has directed 17 […]
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson was in sixth grade when he decided he must leave Kentucky when he grew up. He hated the racism he saw around him in New Haven. A few […]
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall studied creative writing at universities in Florida and New York City. But it wasn’t until she settled into a “tar-paper shack” on a rural Kentucky ridge that […]
