A.B. Guthrie
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. moved to Kentucky in 1926 to become a reporter for the Lexington Leader, where he was to spend the next 17 years as city editor, editorial writer, and […]
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was among Kentucky’s most versatile writers and personalities in the first half of the 20thcentury. He was a journalist, essayist, syndicated columnist, novelist, poet, script writer, actor, […]
Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.
Joseph Seamon Cotter’s life spanned two centuries of monumental change for African Americans — the end of slavery in the 19th century and the long battle for equality in the 20thcentury. […]
Barbara Kingsolver
Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe characterized Barbara Kingsolver as the “Woody Guthrie of contemporary American fiction,” primarily because social activism is at the core of most of her published work. What […]
Gayl Jones
In a 1982 interview with Charles Rowell, Gayl Jones said that, like most people, she felt “connections to home territory — connections that go into one’s ideas of language, personality, landscape.” […]
