Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Harriette Arnow (July 7, 1908 March 22, 1986) was an American novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati, and Detroit.She was born as Harriette Louisa Simpson in Bronston,Wayne County, Kentucky, and grew up in neighboring Pulaski County. Her father, a former teacher, worked in factories and oil fields, and her mother, also a former teacher, raised her to be a teacher, too. She taught for a number of…mehr

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Harriette Arnow (July 7, 1908 March 22, 1986) was an American novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati, and Detroit.She was born as Harriette Louisa Simpson in Bronston,Wayne County, Kentucky, and grew up in neighboring Pulaski County. Her father, a former teacher, worked in factories and oil fields, and her mother, also a former teacher, raised her to be a teacher, too. She taught for a number of years in a one-room school house in Kentucky. Harriet was one of six siblings - 5 girls and 1 boy in a family that could trace its roots back to the Revolutionary War era.Arnow wanted to write and also to develop her knowledge of the land and geology. She attended Berea College for two years before transferring to the University of Louisville. She worked for two years as a teacher in rural Pulaski County, then one of the wilder parts of a region on the outskirts of Appalachia, before moving to Cincinnati, where she published her first works in 1935, two short stories "A Mess of Pork"