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Kentucky Kernel, November 16, 2011
...James Baker Hall Writer Series this year, UK will reveal another Kentucky “gem” at the opening of the Harriette Arnow papers with an exhibit Thursday. Gurney Norman, director of UK’s creative writing program, will speak about his memories of Arnow...
Kentucky Kernel, November 16, 2011
...James Baker Hall Writer Series this year, UK will reveal another Kentucky “gem” at the opening of the Harriette Arnow papers with an exhibit Thursday. Gurney Norman, director of UK’s creative writing program, will speak about his memories of...
Newswise, November 14, 2011
...to explore the imaginative range of this impressive author," Ballard says. The processing and description of the Harriette Arnow papers has proven a formidable project for Kate Black, curator of the Appalachian Collection and manuscripts archivist at UK...
Kentucky.com, October 22, 2011
...Campaign Trail, 1972. Nikky Finney, meanwhile, is the latest in a long line of brilliant Kentucky women writers. Harriette Arnow, a Wayne County native, won the National Book Award in 1954 for The Dollmaker. Marsha Norman of Jefferson County took the...
Kentucky.com, September 23, 2011
...are spotted further South than usual, mountain folks think the world is ending. ■ The Dollmaker, 1954 , by Harriette Arnow. Jane Fonda revived mainstream interest in this book with her 1984 TV movie portrayal of Gertie, a mountain woman whose family...
Lexington Herald Leader, September 4, 2011
...Hunter S. Thompson).The list of great Kentucky writers is long: James Lane Allen, Jesse Stuart, James Still, Harriette Arnow, Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sue Grafton, Richard Taylor, Barbara...
Sojourners, June 16, 2011
...for her independence inside her own home during the 1940s. Based on a beloved book by fellow Kentuckian Harriette Arnow, the film resonated with Judd on a variety of levels. "It's so much about her reality of not being validated," she says. "It engaged...
