Helen Thomas
Helen Amelia Thomas was a famous White House correspondent and a trailblazer for women in Washington journalism. Born in Winchester, Kentucky, she was one of nine children of Lebanese immigrants. Her father was a grocer, and he […]
Ed McClanahan
When Ed McClanahan’s novel The Natural Man was published in 1983, Wendell Berry said, “Others have observed the natural man in the American condition before, but nobody has done it with such […]
Sue Grafton
Upon Sue Grafton’s death in 2017, the online site Literary Hub commented on the legacy of her 40-year career writing mysteries: “. . . the familiar sight of one of Grafton’s alphabet novels has […]
Jane Gentry
When professor, poet, and scholar Jane Gentry passed away, Jeff Clymer, chair of the Department of English at the University of Kentucky, said, “Jane wrote with insight and grace of […]
Alice Dunnigan
In the editor’s note to Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Carol M. Booker wrote, “It wasn’t the poverty of a washerwoman’s life in rural Kentucky that drove young Alice Allison relentlessly to […]
Gurney Norman
Fiction writer, essayist, literary critic, editor, screenwriter, teacher, and mentor, Gurney Norman is widely recognized as an authority on the literary and cultural history of Appalachia. Most of his career […]
