Harriette Arnow
Harriette Arnow wrote The Dollmaker, one of the most powerful American novels about the uprooting of Appalachian culture by wartime industrialization. Gertie Nevels is one of the most fully realized characters in American fiction.
Works
- Mountain PathNovel about woman's struggle to find place in rural Appalachian mountain community
- Hunter's HornNovel following lives of Kentucky family hunting in the wilderness across seasons
- The DollmakerNovel about Appalachian woman displaced to Detroit factory town during World War II
- Seedtime on the CumberlandHistorical account of settlement and culture on Cumberland River in Kentucky
- The Weedkiller's Daughter