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Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1906 – February 17, 1984) was an American writer, school teacher, and school administrator who is known for his short stories, poetry, and novels as well as non-fiction autobiographical works set in central Appalachia.
As a poet, Walker’s own exploration of the history inspired him to start writing it, too, and the result is his 17th book “Load in Nine Times,” a collection of poems that details his own ...
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. is an American educator and author from Floyd County, Kentucky. [1] In 2021, Carver was named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, [2] after teaching French and English at Montgomery County High School. [3]
After graduating from Louisville Male High School in 1886, [1] Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. [2] He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books [3] [4] and 1,500 poems. [5]
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
Unlike the early Kentucky writers, Robert's work featured poor women. Many subsequent Kentucky writers followed her, and succeeded. Among Kentucky's most famous writers of the late 20th century were Jesse Stewart and Robert Penn Warren. Warren wrote fiction and poetry and became the first poet laureate of the United States.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates the state in "My California," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12. From high schools to prison: Why California's poet laureate is always ...