Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie attracted national attention not only as a songwriter and performer, but for her work popularizing traditional Appalachian ballads, many of which had their roots in the British Isles […]
Alice Hegan Rice
Alice Hegan Rice published 20 books between 1901 and 1942, but she is best known for her first: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a best-selling novel inspired by her work […]
Harlan Hubbard
Harlan Hubbard’s realization that industrialism and consumerism posed a threat to the environment and human survival changed his life forever. So did his marriage to Anna Eikenhout in 1943. “They […]
James Lane Allen
James Lane Allen, one of Kentucky’s first best-selling novelists, was widely read in the United States and Great Britain in the late 19thand early 20thcenturies. His writing is considered part […]
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason’s literary landscape is the hopes, dreams, and challenges of working-class people in her native Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky. Many of her stories place characters at […]
