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Kentucky

Great Books List by Phyllis Wilson Moore
 

Marsha Norman-- 'night Mother  (play).

Lucy Furman--The Quare Woman (poetry).

James Still-- River of Earth  (novel).

Jim Wayne Miller--Dialogue with a Dead Man (poetry).

George Ella Lyon--A Regular Rolling Noah (children's book).

Gurney Norman--The Wilgus Stories (short stories).

Ed McClanahan--The Natural Man (novel).

Chris Offutt--Kentucky Straight (stories)

Bobbie Ann Mason--In Country (novel).

Harriette Arnow--The Doll Maker  and Hunter's Horn (novels).

George Brosi--The Literature of the Appalachian South (text).

Robert Penn Warren--All the King's Men (novel).

This leaves out so many: Wendell Berry, Jesse Stuart, Allen Tate, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and  Barbara Kingsolver.  Ahhh such difficulties!

Ms. Moore researches and writes about the multicultural literary history of West Virginia. She also loves Kentucky and and freqently participates in the Apppalachian Writers' Workshop at Hindman, Kentucky. She consulted with the Bridgeport Library in the
design of their "West Virginia authors" webpage: www.mountainlit.com
 
 

Editor's Choice:
The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton
In 1998, this American classic celebrated its 50th year of publication. Always in print!
Hardcastle
by John Yount
Faith, Serpents and Fire : Images of Kentucky Holiness Believers
by Scott Schwartz, Thomas Burton
A Jesse Stuart Reader
by Jessie Stuart