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Ballard, Sandra L., ed.  2000.  “Letters: Appalachian Journal Editor Gets Mail” [letters of tribute to retiring J. W. (Jerry Wayne) Williamson].  Appalachian Journal 28 (Fall): 22-67.

Biggers, Jeff.  1999.  “The Fugitive Of Southern Appalachian Literature: Reconsidering the Poetry of Don West” [1906-1992; overview of his life and writings; primary bibliography].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Fall): 159-180.

Bogess, Carol.  2001.  “James Still's funeral May 1, 2001: A Tribute.”  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 1, no. 1 (November): nonfiction section.    http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/nreview/issue1-1/1-1_content/non-fiction/boggess.htm .

Boggess, Carol.  2003.  “The Still Life in River of Earth: Exploring the Novel’s Biographical Context” [c. 1940; James Still, 1906-1940 period].  Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 324-344.

Bronner, Simon J.  2006.  “Obituary: W.K. McNeil (1940-2005).”   Journal of American Folklore 119, no. 473 (Summer):  356-361.

Brown, Meredith Mason.  2008.  Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America.  Southern Biography Series.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.  375 pp.

Burton, Thomas.  2004.  “Ray Hicks: A Man Who Became a Name” [1922-2003; N.C. storyteller].  Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter): 138-143.

DeRosier, Linda Scott.  1999.  Creeker: A Woman’s Journey [b. 1941; acclaimed Eastern Ky. memoir; see also her succeeding Songs of Life and Grace (2003)].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  272 pp.

Dick, David.  2005.  Jesse Stuart: The Heritage: A Biography.  Forward by Wade Hall; afterword by Thomas D. Clark.  North Middletown, Ky.: Plum Lick Pub.  292 pp.

Draper, Lyman C.  1998.  The Life of Daniel Boone [Draper d. 1891]. Edited with an introduction by Ted Franklin Belue.  Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books.  596 pp.

Egerton, John.  2000.  “His Own Drummer” [tribute to Jim Wayne Miller, d. 1996].  Appalachian Journal 28 (Fall): 122-127.

Farr, Sidney Saylor.  1999.  “I Jumped at the Chance: Loyal Jones Interviews Sidney Saylor Farr, 22 September 1999” [Farr retires after fourteen years as editor of  Appalachian Heritage].  Appalachian Heritage 27 (Fall): 9-25.

Farr, Sidney Saylor.  2007.  My Appalachia: A Memoir [Stoney Fork, Bell Co., Ky.; b. 1932; former editor of Appalachian Heritage].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  231 pp.

Fisher, Stephen L.  2007.  “‘We’re All in This Together’ - and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way: Reflections on 35 Years at Emory & Henry College” [scholar, social activist, and former president of the Appalachian Studies Association].  Appalachian Journal 34, nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer): 280-300.  Selected bibliography of works by Stephen L. Fisher [53 items], 297-300.

Fisher, Steve.  1999.  “Anger and Hope, In Nearly Equal Measure: An Interview with Steve Fisher” [President, Appalachian Studies Association, 1998/99].  Appalachian Journal 26 (Winter): 170-187.

Ford, Thomas D., and J. Randolph Osborne.  2001.  John B. Stephenson: Appalachian Humanist [former Berea College president and Appalachian Center director].  Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation.  349 pp.

Giles, Janice Holt.  2002 [1975].  Wellspring [Ky.; 1905-1979; autobiography, fiction, essays].  Reprint, with a foreword by Wade Hall.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  288 pp.

Gozemba, Patricia A.  2002.  “No Ordinary Teacher: Helen Lewis of Highlander.” In Pockets of Hope: How Students and Teachers Change the World, by E. de los Reyes and P. Gozemba, 177-210.  Series in Language and Ideology. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey.

Hatfield, Coleman C., and Robert Y. Spence.  2003.  The Tale of the Devil: The Biography of Devil Anse Hatfield [1839-1921; Hatfield-McCoy Feud].  From original manuscripts by grandson Coleman A. Hatfield.  Chapmanville, W.Va.: Woodland Press.  320 pp.

Higgs, Jack.  1997.  “Jim Wayne Miller, 1936-1996" [tribute].  Appalachian Journal 24 (Winter): 124-125.

Homer H. Hickam, Jr. [W.Va. aerospace engineer; author of Rocket Boys (1998)].  2000.  In Current Biography Yearbook 2000.  New York: H. W. Wilson.

Howard, Victor B.  1996.  The Evangelical War Against Slavery and Caste: The Life and Times of John G. Fee.  Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press.  253 pp.

Inscoe, John C.  2006.  “Sense of Place, Sense of Being: The Intersection of Geography and Spirit in Recent Appalachian Autobiography.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall): 156-168.  Review essay of six books:  Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005), by Thomas Rain Crowe; Moving Out, Finding Home: Essays on Identity, Place, Community and Class (2005), by Bob Fox; Beauty Before Comfort: A Memoir (2003), by Allison Glock; Loving Mountains, Loving Men (2005), by Jeff Mann; Finding a Clear Path (2005), by Jim Minick; and The Glass Castle (2005), by Jeannette Walls.

Jones, G. C. (Green C.).  2004 [1985].  Growing Up Hard in Harlan County [Ky., b. 1913; classic memoir].  Foreword by Cratis Williams.  Reprint.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  177 pp.

Jones, Libby Falk.  2006.  “‘I stay a little bit angry’: Portrait of Helen Lewis, Activist Teacher.”  Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 52-60.

Jones, Loyal.  2000.  “Interview with Loyal Jones.”  By Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw.  Appalachian Journal 27 (Summer): 378-403.

Levy, Buddy.  2005.  American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett.  New York: Berkley Books.  339 pp.

Lewis, Helen.  2000.  “Unruly Woman: An Interview with Helen Lewis” [b. 1924].  Interview by Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw.  Appalachian Journal 27 (Winter): 164-189.

Lofaro, Michael A.  2004.  “The Many Lives of Daniel Boone” [literature about Boone].  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102, no. 4: 488-511.

Lorence, James J.  2007.  A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West [1906-1992; radical, labor organizer, leftist activist, writer, poet, educator, ordained minister, “Appalachian Hero”].  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  308 pp.  Weatherford Award winner for non-fiction.

McGowan, Thomas, and Daniel W. Patterson.  2005.  “Twenty Dollar Non-Blues: Cece Conway: Folklorist, Organizer of Festivals, and Lovable Colleague” [2005 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 52, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 55-59.

McGowan, Thomas.  2002.  “Representing Cratis Williams: A Review Essay” [reviews the memoir The Cratis Williams Chronicles: I Come to Boone (1999) and the documentary film Cratis Williams: Living the Divided Life (1999)].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 49 (Spring/Summer): 1-33.

Mitchell, Ted.  1997.  Thomas Wolfe: A Writer’s Life [biography; 1900-1938].  Asheville, N.C.: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Historic Site.  114 pp.

Morgan, Robert.  2007.  “Simon Kenton” [biographical background on Kenton, 1755-1836, stemming from research on Boone: A Biography (2007)].  Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 3 (Summer): 93-97.

Morgan, Robert.  2007.  Boone: A Biography [Daniel Boone, 1734-1820].  Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  538 pp.

Olsen, Lyle [Foreword], et al.  1994.  One for the Higger: Jack Higgs, a Man for All Seasons [poetry, short stories, memoirs, and essays honoring Robert J. (Jack) Higgs].  Johnson City, Tenn.: East Tennessee State University Press. 204 pp.  Contents: One for the Higger: Jack Higgs, a man for all seasons / Thomas Burton -- Jack Higgs and the mighty Knicks of Knoxville: a memoir / Neil D. Isaacs -- The unshined shoe / Robert J. Higgs -- The caring gardener of leisure / Lyle Olsen -- Mountain gloom and mountain glory in the old and new worlds / Jean Haskell Speer -- Energy (poem) / Don Johnson -- Smokemont: memories of a fish hatchery childhood / John Morefield -- The liberal arts and higher education today / Bert C. Bach -- The uncertainty of history / Richard C. Crepeau -- Suzanne Lenglen: symbol for an age / Susan J. Bandy -- “And hope for all the language is”: Whitman, Dickinson, and the reader / Ron Giles -- “Who the Hell are you, kid?”: language, nostalgia and identity in the baseball poem / Don Johnson -- The lonely marathon / Kevin Lewis -- The comparison of black and Appalachian storytelling / Loyal Jones -- His lake (poem) / Betty J. Williams -- Red-eye and Jack Higgs / Mick Davenport -- Thoreau could have predicted it / Anne S. Darden -- Diving deep: notes on “Grabbling” -- Grabbling (poem) / Don Johnson -- Wet-one-up: cheating honestly / Lyle Olsen.

Peters, Jason, ed.  2007.  Wendell Berry: Life and Work [27 essays].  Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  349 pp.  Contents: Introduction / Jason Peters -- Ain’t they the berries! / Ed McClanahan -- Wendell Berry on war and peace; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman -- Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders -- The best noise in the world / Donald Hall -- Wendell Berry’s political vision / Kimberly K. Smith -- How Wendell Berry single-handedly preserved three hundred years of agrarian wisdom / David Kline -- Memory and hope in the world of Port William / John Leax -- Politics, nature, and value in Wendell Berry’s “art of the commonplace” / Eric Trethewey -- Berry Britannica / John Lane -- Wendell Berry and the twentieth-century agrarian “series” / Allan Carlson -- A citizen of the real world / Bill McKibben -- Sexuality and the sacramental imagination: it all turns on affection / P. Travis Kroeker -- A practical education: Wendell Berry the professor / Morris A. Grubbs -- An economy of gratitude / Norman Wirzba -- Letters from a humble radical / Wes Jackson -- Wendell Berry and the limits of populism / Erich T. Freyfogle -- Hemingway’s Nick and Wendell Berry’s art / David Crowe -- At his desk as on his land / Hayden Carruth -- Wendell Berry and the traditionalist critique of meritocracy / Jeremy Beer -- Looking the technological gift horse in the mouth / Sven Birkerts -- Wendell Berry: agrarian artist / Gene Logsdon -- Education, heresy, and the “deadly disease of the world” / Jason Peters -- Wendell’s window and the wind’s eye / James Baker Hall -- The art of buying nothing / Barbara Kingsolver -- Fidelity / Katherine Dalton -- Wendell Berry and the alternative tradition in American political thought / Patrick J. Deneen -- A long shelf / Jack Shoemaker -- Afterword / George Core -- Chronology -- Selected Bibliography.

Remembering Jim Wayne Miller [1936-1996].  1997.  Special issue, Appalachian Heritage 25 (Fall): 3-54.

Remembering Senator Jennings Randolph [W.Va.; helped found ARC; d. 1998].  1998.  “Eulogy to Senator Jennings Randolph,” by Senator Robert C. Byrd, and “Tribute to a Pioneer,” by James E. Casto.  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 31 (May-August): 18-21.

Rourke, Constance. 1998 [1934].  Davy Crockett [biography].  Reprint, with an introduction by Michael A. Lofaro.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.  276 pp.  Originally published: New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Settle, Mary Lee.  1998.  Addie: A Memoir [autobiography via memoir of grandmother; W.Va.].  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.  237 pp.

Smith, Betty N.  1998.  Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers [d. 1925; N.C. storyteller and informant to ballad collector Cecil Sharp].  Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.  226 pp.

Still, James.  2001.  “A Man Singing to Himself: An Autobiographical Essay” [1906-2001].  In From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems, ed. Ted Olson, 5-24.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Taylor, Richard.  2004.  “Daniel Boone as American Icon: A Literary View” [surveys many writings and attributions].  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102, no. 4: 512-533.

Waggoner, Eric G.  2005.  “Radical Rhetoric, American Iconography, and The Autobiography of Mother Jones” [1925].  Appalachian Journal 32, no. 2 (Winter): 192-210.

West Virginia Biographical Dictionary [brief sketches of 233 men and 4 women]. 1999.  St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Somerset Publishers.  294 pp.

Whisnant, David.  2000.  “On the Other Hand...: An Interview with David Whisnant” [b. 1938; N.C.].  Interview by Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw.  Appalachian Journal 27 (Spring): 272-296.

Williams, Ann.  1999.  “My Father, Don West.”  Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 5: 40-42.

Williams, Cratis D.  1999.  Cratis Williams Chronicles: I Come to Boone.  Edited by David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver.  Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press.  144 pp.

Williams, Cratis D.  2003.  Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia: The Cratis Williams Chronicles [Part 1 of 3; b. 1911, Caines Creek, Lawrence Co., Ky.]  Edited by David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver.  Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 8.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.  444 pp.

Williamson, J. W.  2004.  “Remembering Henry D. Shapiro (1938-2004)” [author of Appalachia On Our Mind (1978)].  Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter): 136-137.

Williamson, Jerry W.  2000.  “A Cold Day in Hell: An Interview with Jerry Williamson.” By Patricia Beaver and Helen Lewis.  Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall): 78-115.

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley.  2002.  “Lifting Up His Eyes unto the Hills: Harry M. Caudill and His Appalachia.”  Filson History Quarterly 76 (Winter): 1-32.