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May 14, 2009

Kentucky

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Kentucky has a rich literary tradition with a strong emphasis of living life on the land.

Barbara Kingsolver
… serving as a Naval doctor. Both he and Barbara’s mother were natives of Kentucky and soon after Barbara was born they returned home. …

Wendell Berry
… written, “by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.” Wendell Berry was born in Newcastle, Kentucky, 1934. …

Allen Tate
… born in 1899 in Winchester, Kentucky. His father’s business interests, mostly lumber, land and stock, forced the Tates to move often. …

Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905 and remained a resident of the South until his late thirties. It would be the …

Barbara Kingsolver’s
Prodigal Summer
… By entwining three stories of evolving relationships within a larger tapestry of life in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, Kingsolver reminds us…

Silas House
Born and raised in Lily, Kentucky … currently, House is a professor at Eastern Kentucky University…

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