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 […]
Elizabeth Maddox Roberts
Elizabeth Maddox 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 […]
Harriette Arnow
Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow is best known for her landmark novel The Dollmaker (1954), which chronicled the migration of Appalachians to America’s industrial centers during World War II. The Dollmaker was widely read and […]
