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This book has been one of Kentucky's best known books for folk tales. In 1847, Theodore O'Hara, who was born in Danville, wrote one of America's best elegies. Regarding historical literature, the History of Kentucky was published in 1847 by Lewis Collins, and later expanded in 1874 by his son Richard Henry Collins. This work is a mine of ...
Ron Whitehead has been involved in many aspects of the artistic field; writing poetry, editing literary works, organizing a non-profit organization to support literature worldwide called the Global Literary Renaissance, teaching and lecturing to students, and collaborating with artists and musicians, focusing primarily on the Louisville art scene and Kentucky folk art.
Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, archivist, folklorist, musician, and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with an M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore.
Writers from Lexington, Kentucky (62 P) Writers from Louisville, Kentucky (197 P) A. Academics from Kentucky (4 C, 10 P) M. Memoirists from Kentucky (3 P) N.
Wylie Caudill holds a bottle of Woodford Reserve’s commemorative 2024 Kentucky Derby bourbon, featuring his art work, during a press conference at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday ...
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Leading 20th-century authors at Oxford University include C. S. Lewis (works including The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books) and J. R. R. Tolkien (works including Middle-earth books). Inspector Morse is a detective book series based in Oxford, by Colin Dexter. It has spawned a successful television series.
Crystal E. Wilkinson is an African-American feminist writer from Kentucky, and proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement. [1] She is winner of a 2022 NAACP Image Award and a 2021 O. Henry Prize winner; she is a 2020 USA Fellow of Creative Writing.