Title Conversations with Kentucky writers / L. Elisabeth Beattie, editor ; photographs by Susan Lippman ; with a foreword by Wade Hall

Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1996] ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (412 pages) Series Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series Kentucky remembered. Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; General Editor's Preface; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Wendell Berry; Billy C. Clark; Michael Dorris; Leon Driskell; Sue Grafton; James Baker Hall; Wade Hall; Fenton Johnson; Barbara Kingsolver; George Ella Lyon; Bobbie Ann Mason; Taylor McCafferty; Ed McClanahan; Jim Wayne Miller; Sena Jeter Naslund; Marsha Norman; Chris Offutt; Lee Pennington; Betty Layman Receveur; James Still; Index Summary Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris and Barbara Kingsolver, they have one connection: Kentucky has influenced their writing and their lives. L. Elisabeth Beattie explores this influence in twenty intimate interviews. Conversations with Kentucky Writers was more than three years in the making, as Beattie traveled across the state an Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- Kentucky -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews Authorship. Authorship authorship. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Authors, American Authors, American -- Homes and haunts Authorship Intellectual life Literature SUBJECT Kentucky -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Kentucky -- In literature Subject Kentucky Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Interviews Form Electronic book Author Beattie, L. Elisabeth, 1953- Lippman, Susan Hall, Wade, 1934-2015 ISBN 9780813157160 0813157161 0813190436 9780813190433

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