Catherine Ann Warfield

Catherine Ann Warfield                                                 

Biographical Information

Date of birth: 1816                                                                                     
Date of death: 1877
Birthplace: Natchez, Mississippi

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Residence: Lexington, Ky.

Life Events: married Robert Elisha Warfield in 1833

Publications:
The Wife Of Leon And Other Poems, 1844
The Indian Chamber And Other Poems, 1846
The Household Of Bouverie, 1860
The Romance Of The Green Seal, 1866
The Romance of Beauseincourt, 1867
Miriam Monfort, 1873
Double Wedding, 1875
Hester Howard’s Temptation, 1875
Lady Ernestine, 1876
Sea And Shore, 1876
The Cardinal’s Daughter, 1877
Ferne Fleming, 1877
Monfort Hall, 1876
The Quadroon, 1877


List and Links to source:  

Catherine Anne Warfield at Wikipedia

Catherine Anne Warfield at Old Miss


Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
          
VIAF:  http://viaf.org/viaf/58669964/

Harriette S. Arnow

Harriette S. Arnow

Biographical Information

Pseudonym: H. L. Simpson
Date of birth: July 7, 1908                                                                                         
Date of death: March 22, 1986
Birthplace: Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky     
Place of death/burial: Washtenaw County, Michigan; buried at farm in Keno, Pulaski County, Kentucky

Hometown: Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky
Residence: 1934-1939 Cincinnati, OH; 1940-1944 Pulaski County, KY; 1944-1950 Detroit, MI; 1950- Ann Arbor, MI            

Life Events: Married Harold B. Arnow in 1939          

Education:
Attended Berea College, KY 1924-1926;
B.A. from University of Louisville, 1931

Employment:
Teacher: Pulaski County, KY;
Assistant: Federal Writers Project, WPA, Cincinnati, OH         

Awards:
Saturday Review ”Best Novel” for Hunter’s Horn, 1949                                                         

Publications:
Mountain Path, 1936
Between the Flowers, 1999
Hunter’s Horn, 1949
The Dollmaker, 1954
Seedtime on the Cumberland, 1960
Flowering of the Cumberland, 1963
The Weedkiller’s Daughter, 1970
The Kentucky Trace, 1974
Old Burnside, 1977

Links to sources:
Harriette S. Arnow at ExploreUK

Harriette S. Arnow at Kentucky Virtual Library

Harriette S. Arnow at Berea College

Harriette S. Arnow at Wikipedia


Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Caucasian
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George Ella Lyon

George Ella Lyon 

Biographical Information

                                                                        
Date of birth: 1949                                                          
Birthplace: Harlan, Kentucky     
Life Events: Married Steve Lyon, 1972

Education:  

BA from Centre College, Danville, KY, 1971
MA from University of Arkansas, 1972
Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington, 1978.

Awards:     

Lamont Hall Award, Andrew Mountain Press, 1983, for Mountain
Golden Kite Award, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, 1989 for Borrowed Children
Kentucky Bluegrass Award, for Basket
Andrew Mountain Press Award, for Mountain
Book of the Year Award, Appalachian Writers Association, for Catalpa

Best Books of the Year citation, Publishers Weekly, for Who Came Down that Road?

Jesse Stuart Media Award, Kentucky School Media Association, for body of work.

 

Publications:

A B Cedar
A Day At Damp Camp
A Regular Rolling Noah
A Sign
A Traveling Cat
A Wonderful Child
Ada's Pal
All The Water In The World
Back: Poems
Basket
Book
Borrowed Children
Catalpa
Cecil's Story
Choices: Stories For Adult New Readers
Counting On The Woods
Don't You Remember?
Dreamplace
Father Time And The Day Boxes
Five Live Bongos
Gina.Jamie.Father Bear
Here And Then: A Civil War Time-Travel Tale
Holding On To Zoe
Mama Is A Miner
Many Storied House
Mother To Tigers
Mountain
My Friend The Starfinder
No Dessert Forever!
One Luck Girl
Planes Fly
She Let Herself Go
Sleepsong
Sonny's House Of Spies
Succinct: The Broadstone Anthology Of Short Poems
The Outside Inn
The Pirate Of Kindergarten
The Stranger I Left Behind
Together
Truck Roll!
Voices From The March On Washington
Weaving The Rainbow
What Forest Knows
Where I'm From, Where Poems Come From
Which Side Are You On? The Story Of A Song
With A Hammer For My Heart
Who Came Down That Road?
You And Me And Home Sweet Home

Links to sources:

Click here for author's website

Click here for Wikipedia entry

Gender: Female
Ethnicity:  Caucasian

James Lane Allen

James Lane Allen
 
Biographical Information:

Date of birth:  December 21, 1849                                    
Date of death: February 18, 1925
Birthplace:  near Lexington, KY                                                                                                   

Hometown:  Lexington, KY
Residence:  New York City    (1893-1925)

Education:  Transylvania University, graduated 1872

Publications:      
Flute and Violin (1891) (compilation of previously published stories)
The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky (1892) (second compilation)
John Gray (1893)
A Kentucky Cardinal (1894)
Aftermath (1895) (sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal)
Summer in Arcady (1896)
The Choir Invisible (1897)
Two Gentlemen of Kentucky (1899)
The Reign of Law (1900)
The Mettle of the Pasture (1903)
The Bride of the Mistletoe (1909)
The Doctor's Christmas Eve (1910)
The Heroine in Bronze (1912)
The Last Christmas Tree (1914)
The Sword of Youth (1915)
A Cathedral Singer (1916)
The Kentucky Warbler (1918)
The Emblems of Fidelity (1919)
The Alabaster Box (1923)
The Landmark (1925)

Links to sources: 
James Lane Allen in Wikipedia
James Lane Allen in ExploreUK
James Lane Allen in Kentucky Virtual Library

Gender: Male
Ethnicity:  Caucasian

Virtual International Authority File: 84087648      

Harlan Hubbard

Harlan Hubbard

Biographical Information:
Date of birth:  January 4, 1900                                                                          
Date of death:  January 16, 1988
Birthplace:  Bellevue, Kentucky                                                                                                  

Residence:  Bellevue, KY; New York, NY; Fort Thomas, KY; Ross, KY; Payne Hollow, KY
Life Events:  Marries Anna Eikenhout, April 20, 1943 
Education:  National Academy of Design, Cincinnati Art School

Publications:
Hubbard, Harlan, Shantyboat, illustrated by the author, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953

Hubbard, Harlan, Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society, New York: Crowell, 1974

Hubbard, Harlan, Shantboat: A River Way of Life, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1977

Hubbard, Harlan, Harlan Hubbard Journals, 1929-1944, ed. by Vincent Kohler & David F. Ward, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1987

Wallis, Don, Oyo: An Ohio River Anthology, 3 volumes, Yellow Springs, OH: Oyo Press, 1987

Wallis, Don, Harlan Hubbard and the River: A Visionary Life, Yellow Springs, OH: Oyo Press, 1989

Berry, Wendell, Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990

Hubbard, Harlan, Shantyboat on the Bayous, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990

Moffett, Judith, Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream, (characters and situations based on Harlan and Anna Hubbard set in a locale based on Payne Hollow), New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1992

Hubbard, Harlan, Shantyboat Journal, with illustrations by the author; edited by Don Wallis, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994

Caddell, Bill, The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard: From the Collection of Bill Caddell, Foreward by Wendell Berry, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994

Hubbard, Harlan, Payne Hollow Journal, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Hall, Wade H., A Visit with Harlan Hubbard, Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Libraries, 1996.

Berry, Wendell, Sonata at Payne Hollow: A Play, Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2001.

Links to websites: http://www.harlanhubbard.com/

Links to sources:
Wikipedia
Website
Video                                                         
Virtual International Authority File
Harlan Hubbard Art Collection LibGuide

Gender: Male
Ethnicity:  Caucasian

Frank X. Walker

Frank X. Walker

Biographical Information

Date of birth: 1961                                                                    
Birthplace: Danville, KY                                                                       
Hometown: Danville, KY

Education: University of Kentucky, MFA in Writing from Spalding University
Employment: Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kentucky
                           Editor and publisher, Pluck!
                                                         

Publications:

Isaac Murphy: I dedicate this ride Old Cove Press. 2010 ISBN 9780967542430

When Winter Come: the Ascension of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8131-.

Black Box. Old Cove Press. 2005. ISBN 0-9675424-1-3.

Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2003. ISBN 0-8131-9088-6.

Affrilachia. Old Cove Press. 2000. ISBN 0-9675424-0-5.

Awards:

            2004               Lillian Smith Book Award
            2005               Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry
                                   Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship
            2006               Thomas D. Clark Literary Award for Excellence
                                   Actors Theatre’s Keeper of the Chronicle Award
            2013-2014      Kentucky Poet Laureate
            2014               NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry

Links to sources:

Frank X Walker website

Frank X. Walker at Wikipedia

Gender: Male
Ethnicity:  African American