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Harriette
Arnow (Wayne,
1908-1986)
Arnow is
best known for her third novel, The
Dollmaker, which won the National Book Award and was made into a
major motion picture.
Joy Bale
Boone (Barren,
b. 1912)
Boone was
Kentucky’s Poet Laureate between 1997-1999.
Janice Holt
Giles (Adair,
1905-1979)
Giles
built a log house in Knifley with her husband.
Here, she wrote many historical novels that are set in
Kentucky, including the autobiographical, Forty
Acres and No
Mule (1952) and The
Kentuckians (1953).
Caroline
Gordon (Todd,
1895-1981)
A writer of
Kentucky fiction whose first novel was published in 1931.
She received a Guggenheim Award in 1932, and the O.
Henry Award in 1934. Her
novels include The Woman on
the Porch (1944) and None
Shall Look Back (1937).
bell
hooks (Christian, b.
1952)
A writer and scholar who has devoted her life and work to
ending racial and gender
prejudice.
Currently a professor at the City College of New York.
Read
more about bell
hooks.
Gayl
Jones (Fayette, b.
1949)
Jones’ novels have brought her many awards such as a
1999 literary award from the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association for her book The
Healing.
Barbara
Kingsolver (Nicholas, b. 1955)
Her many awards include the American Library Association
awards, 1988, for her book The
Bean Trees, and 1990, for Homeland
as well as a citation of accomplishment from United Nations National
Council of Women, 1989.
Visit her Official Web site.
Bobbie
Ann Mason (Graves, b. 1940)
Most of Mason’s
novels are set in western Kentucky.
In Country was made
into a movie in 1988.
Learn
more about Bobbie
Ann Mason.
Marsha
Norman (Jefferson,
b. 1947)
A Louisville native who won the Pulitzer Prize in
1983
for her play, “’night, Mother.”
Verna
Mae Slone (Knott, b. 1914)
Slone’s 1979 book What My Heart Wants To
Tell was her chance to tell the
world about Appalachia from her perspective.
Slone is also a well-known quilter and dollmaker.
Effie
Waller Smith (Pike,
1879-1960)
A poet in
Pikeville when black students had to leave the county for education beyond the 8th grade. She often wrote of the surrounding
flora and fauna.
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