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

• Category:Writers from Kentucky
• List of newspapers in Kentucky
• Category:Kentucky in fiction
• Category:Libraries in Kentucky
• Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

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

• Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Kentucky". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 191 – via HathiTrust.
• Elsie Dershem (1921). "Kentucky". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
• Federal Writers' Project (1939), "The Arts: Literature", Kentucky, American Guide Series, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pp. 121–125, OCLC 498232 – via Internet Archive
• G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Kentucky literature)
• David Burg (1992). "Literature". In John E. Kleber (ed.). Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 560–562. ISBN 0-8131-2883-8.
• Jane Gentry Vance (2001). "Literature of Kentucky". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 396–403. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.

External links

• United for Libraries. "Literary Landmarks by State: Kentucky". Chicago: American Library Association.