Kentucky literature

The literature of Kentucky, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Lane Allen, Wendell Berry, Theodore O'Hara, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren.[1]

History

A printing press began operating in Lexington in 1787.[2]

Writers of the antebellum period included Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867).[3]

The prolific Southern writer Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) wrote his first novel Night Rider (1939) based on the Kentucky-Tennessee Black Patch Tobacco Wars.[4]

See also

References

  1. Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  2. Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
  3. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 via Documenting the American South.
  4. Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.

Bibliography


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