Jesse Stuart
Jesse Hilton Stuart was an accomplished poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist by the time he was in his 40s. He received the 1934 Jeannette Sewal Davis poetry prize […]
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton spent 27 years in Nelson County, Kentucky as a Trappist Monk in the Abbey of Gethsemani. He authored more than 70 books covering a wide range of genres including […]
Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight born into a poor family of seven children. Knight spent most of his adolescent years working in pool halls, bars, and juke joints where he developed a drug […]
James Baker Hall
James Baker Hall was a versatile talent, excelling as a poet, novelist, short story writer, and photographer. He also was a consummate teacher for more than 30 years (1973-2003) in the […]
Janice Holt Giles
Janice Holt Giles was born in Arkansas, the second of four children of educators John Albert Holt and Lucy Elizabeth McGraw Holt. She didn’t begin her first novel until 1946, […]
Thomas D. Clark
Thomas Dionysius Clark was perhaps Kentucky’s best-known historian. He was as a professor, preservationist, lecturer, dynamic public speaker, researcher, and a skilled writer and advocate for improving life in Kentucky. Clark […]
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 […]
