Hunter S. Thompson
Scanlan’s Monthly was one of those short-lived magazines nobody would remember, except for one 1970 article: “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” by Hunter S. Thompson. The Louisville-born journalist had […]
Effie Waller Smith
As an African American woman in Appalachian Kentucky in the early 1900s, Efflie Waller Smith was unlikely to become a published poet. She was born to former slaves Frank Waller, […]
Jim Wayne Miller
One of Jim Wayne Miller’s tenets as a poet was to provide the reader with an environment of deep discovery. He once said that he was often amused when a […]
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Lexington Herald’s school notes page of Sept. 29, 1929 reported that the Live Wire Club of Miss Skinner’s homeroom at Lexington Junior High School had decided to create a class […]
Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport claimed that writing fiction was just a hobby, yet he published eight collections of short stories, won a third prize in the O. Henry Awards (1974), and was […]
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry is Kentucky’s most prolific and well-known living writer. In dozens of books, he has mastered three genres: fiction (both novels and short stories), poetry, and essays. He […]
