Harriette Simpson Arnow

Name:                         Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow                                                                 

Pseudonym:               H. L. Simpson

Date of birth:             July 7, 1908                                                                

Date of death:            March 22, 1986

Birthplace:                 Monticello, Wayne County, KY         
Place of death:           Washtenaw County, Michigan
Place of burial:           buried at farm in Keno, Pulaski County, KY

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

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

Sources:         

            Harriette Simpson Arnow at Wikipedia
            Harriette Arnow Collection at Berea College
            Harriette Simpson Arnow at Kentucky Digital Library
            Harriette Simposon Arnow at Kentucky Encyclopedia

Harriette Simpson Arnow papers, 1907-2004 The Harriette Simpson Arnow papers (54.71 cubic feet, dated 1907-2004) provide a broad look at a writer’s life and work. Included are materials that document her writing process, from first-draft manuscripts on dime store tablets, through various iterations and drafts, to printer page proofs. Also included are correspondence with family, editors, publishers (especially Alfred A. Knopf and Macmillan Company), and literary agents such as Russell and Volkening, Inc. Researchers will find mail from readers, photographs, speeches, and materials documenting Arnow’s political interests such as McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee, the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Book reviews, scholarly articles, and dissertations written about Arnow’s work are also featured in the papers.

Guide to the Harriette Simpson Arnow Collection These are papers relating to the life and writings of Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986). The collection consists mainly of clippings, correspondence, manuscript fragments, miscellaneous essays, and reviews of Arnow’s work. There are also Pulaski County school photographs with Arnow’s handwritten captions and Detroit News photos of Arnow and her children at home.

1/11/2017