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