Ackerman, Kathy Cantley. 2004. The Heart of Revolution: The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan [Olive Tilford Dargan, 1869-1968; pseud. Fielding Burke]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 237 pp.
Acree, Wilma, George Lies, Patsy Pittman, and Sandy Tritt, eds. 2008. Seeking the Swan: A Selection of Winning Entries from the West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Competition 1996-2006. Lewisburg, W.Va.: West Virginia Writers, Inc. 264 pp.
Adams, Gail Galloway. 2002. “West Virginia, Literature Of.” In The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, eds. J. Flora and L. Mackethan, 957-962. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Adams, Sheila Kay. 1995. Come Go Home With Me: Stories. Foreword by Lee Smith, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 120 pp.
Adams, Sheila Kay. 2004. My Old True Love: A Novel [Civil War-era N.C.; singing, ballad theme]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 289 pp.
Adams, Timothy Dow. 2004. “Telling Stories in Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I Know For Sure” [New York: Dutton, 1995]. Southern Literary Journal 36 (Spring): 82-99.
Agee, James. 2005. James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’ and Other New Manuscripts. Edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Hugh Davis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 437 pp.
Albert, Susan Wittig. 2003. “The Art of Sharyn McCrumb: Anthropologist and Balladeer.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 69-79. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Allen, Gilbert. 2003. Driving to Distraction: Poems. Washington, D.C.: Orchises. 64 pp.
Allison, Dorothy. 2001. “Talking Trash: The Interview: Dorothy Allison” [web page]. By Marilee Strong. 17 pp. http://home.earthlink.net/~uur/trash.htm. (“Originally published in San Francisco Focus, KQED, Northern California Broadcasting”).
Alther, Lisa. 2001. “Healing Laughter: A Conversation (recorded at the Lisa Alther Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, October 20, 2000).” Interview by Wayne Pond. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 28-36.
Alther, Lisa. 2001. “Lisa Alther Goes Back to East Tennessee” [considering moving home]. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 4-5.
Alther, Lisa. 2001. “The Eye of the Lord” [essay; originally appeared in Women’s Review of Books, July 1999]. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 6-7.
Alther, Lisa. 2008. “The Shadow Side of Appalachia: Mildred Haun’s Haunting Fiction.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 2 (Spring): 30-38. Featured Author (1911-1966); author of The Hawk’s Done Gone (1940).
Alvarez, Raymond. 1998. Coal Camp Boys [fiction; 1950s-60s W.Va.]. Fairmont, W.Va.: Word’s Worth Writing Services. 425 pp.
Always a Love Story: Fiction from the Appalachian Mountains. 2001. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Summer): 1-44.
Anderson, Belinda. 2001. The Well Ain’t Dry Yet [short stories; W.Va.]. Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press. 155 pp.
Anderson, Belinda. 2006. The Bingo Cheaters [fiction; W.Va.]. Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press. 189 pp.
Anderson, Belinda. 2007. “‘From a Place Called Solid’: Mapping the Literary Landscape of West Virginia.” Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 10: 3-5.
Anderson, Linda. 1999. The Secrets of Sadie Maynard [mystery/romance; W.Va.]. New York: Pocket Star Books. 452 pp.
Anderson, Maggie (moderator), with George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Meredith Sue Willis. 2007. “Tall Women: Feminism and Female Identity in Appalachian Literature” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 46-42.
Anderson, Maggie. 2000. Windfall: New and Selected Poems. Pitt Poetry Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 112 pp.
Anderson, Maggie. 2004. “Sentences of Light” [on the poetry of Robert Morgan]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Summer): 37-39.
Anderson, Maggie. 2005. “The Spaces Between: A Conversation (Recorded at the Maggie Anderson Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, September 24, 2004).” Interview by Kate Long. The Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 35-42.
Andrews, Tom. 2002. Random Symmetries: The Collected Poems of Tom Andrews [1961-2001; W.Va.; hemophilia, HIV]. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College Press. 265 pp.
Angle, Kimberly Greene. 2008. Hummingbird. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 243 pp. Adolescent fiction; Ga. farm life; motherless 12-year-old.
Angyal, Andrew J. 1995. Wendell Berry [handbook; criticism and interpretation]. Twayne’s United States Author Series; TUSAS no. 654. New York: Twayne Publishers. 181 pp.
Angyal, Andrew J. 1997. “Wendell Berry.” In Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. T. Chevalier, 87-89. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
Annas, Mary Roche. 2000. “Proletarian Disaster and Social Change: Representations of Raymond Williams in Vicki Covington’s Night Ride Home” [1992 novel about 1939 mining town Bessemer, Ala.]. In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film, ed. W. Thesing, 155-165. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Anthony, Joseph C. 2003. “Burning the Question” [critiques poetry and stories of James Goode]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 14-21.
Anthony, Joseph G. 2005. Peril, Kentucky [fiction; outsider community college teacher]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 158 pp.
Appalachian Accents: Articles, Fiction, Essays, Poetry, and Reviews. 2000. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 1-53.
Appalachian Poetry: Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Reviews. 1998. Special issue, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 1-40.
Appalachian Poetry. 2005. Special issue, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 55, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 5-63. [“A Portfolio of Appalachian Poets”: poems by Charles Wright, Marianne Worthington, William Woolfitt, Jonathan Williams, Jackson Wheeler, A. E. Stringer, Noel Smith, Katherine Smith, George Scarbrough, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Steve Rhodes, Ron Rash, Lynn Powell, Rick Mulkey, Robert Morgan, Jim Minick, Michael McFee, Linda Parsons Marion, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jeff Mann, Leatha Kendrick, Don Johnson, David Huddle, James Harms, Cathryn Hankla, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Geraldine Connolly, Michael Chitwood, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Elinor Benedict, Maggie Anderson, Gilbert Allen, Joni Tevis].
Armstrong, Jennifer. 2000. Theodore Roosevelt: Letters from a Young Coal Miner [1901 Pa.; juvenile fiction; Polish immigrant]. Dear Mr. President series. Delray Beach, Fla.: Winslow Press. 118 pp.
Arnold, Edwin T. 2002. “The Mosaic of McCarthy’s Fiction” [b. 1933]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 1-8. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Arnold, Edwin T. 2002. “The Mosaic of McCarthy’s Fiction.” In Cormac McCarthy, ed. H. Bloom, 45-51. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
Arnold, Edwin T. 2006. “Cormac McCarthy’s Frontier Humor.” In The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor, ed. E. Piacentino, 190-209. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Arnold, Edwin T. 2007. “In Memoriam: Lou V. Crabtree (March 13, 1913-April 10, 2006).” Appalachian Journal 34, no. 2 (Winter): 140-141. See also Arnold’s interview with Lou Crabtree reprinted in Interviewing Appalachia (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1994); and Lee Smith’s “Writing Gave Pleasure to Her Soul,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, 27 August 2006, K1, K4.
Arnold, Edwin T., ed. 2002. “Donald Harington.” Special issue, Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 1-156.
Arnoult, Darnell. 2005. What Travels With Us: Poems [textile mill-town voices; early 1900s Blue Ridge, Va.]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 56 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry.
Arnoult, Darnell. 2006. Sufficient Grace: A Novel [themes of identity, faith, love, motherhood, “personal transformation and redemption”]. New York: Free Press. 302 pp.
Arnoult, Darnell. 2007. “Within Sight” [Featured Author–Memoir; 1994]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 34-42.
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. 2005. The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow [b. 1908; 25 stories, 15 previously unpublished]. Edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Haeja K. Chung. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press. 259 pp.
Arnow, Harriette Simpson. 1996 [1963; 1984] Flowering of the Cumberland. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books. 464 pp. Originally published: New York: Macmillan; Lexington: University Press of Kentucky)
Arnow, Harriette Simpson. 1999 [1954]. The Dollmaker. Reprint, with an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Avon Books. 608 pp. Originally published: New York: Macmillan.
Arnow, Harriette Simpson. 1999. Between the Flowers [Arnow’s second novel, previously unpublished, written in the 1930s]. Edited by Fred Svoboda. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 448 pp.
Arnow, Pat, and Jo Carson. 1998. “The Wealth of Story: A Conversation” [interview recorded at the Jo Carson Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, October 31, 1997]. The Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 31-37.
Arnow, Thomas L. 2005. “On Being Harriette Arnow’s Son” [Ann Arbor, Mich.; Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow, 1908-1996]. Appalachian Journal 32, no. 4 (Summer): 460-467.
Ashburn, Gwen McNeill. 2007. “Working without Nets: Early Twentieth-Century Mountain Women in Fiction.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 24, (September): 133-140. Fielding Burke, Call Home the Heart (1932); cf. Robert Morgan, Gap Creek (1999).
Ashcom, Robert L. 2002. Winter Run [fiction; 1940s Blue Ridge Va. boyhood; race relations]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 240 pp.
Austin, Sherry. 2007. The Days between the Years: Inspired by a True Story [fiction, N.C.; widow shares long-forgotten memories of her Depression-era and WWII past with family]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press. 200 pp.
Awiakta, Marilou. 2006 [1978]. Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet [poems]. Reprint, with an afterword by Parks Lanier, Jr. Blacksburg, Va.: Pocahontas Press. 65 pp. Originally published: Memphis, Tenn.: St. Luke’s Press.
Baber, Bob Henry, George Ella Lyon, and Gurney Norman, eds. 1994. Old Wounds, New Words: An Anthology of Recent Appalachian Poetry. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 203 pp.
Baber, Bob Henry. 1994. A Picture from Life's Other Side. Richwood, W.Va.: B. H. Baber. 118 pp.
Baber, Bob Henry. 2006. The Swamper File: A Novel in Three Acts: Based on a True Story [flower child picaresque from 1971 Los Angeles to W.Va.; Baber is an original member of the 1970s Soupbean Poets]. Huntington, W.Va.: Mid-Atlantic Highlands. 287 pp.
Bahr, Howard. 1998. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War [Franklin, Tenn.; 1864]. New York: Henry Holt. 267 pp.
Baker, Julie. 2002. Up Molasses Mountain [adolescent fiction; 1953 W.Va. coal town; strike]. New York: Wendy Lamb Books/Random House. 209 pp.
Baker, Ronald L, ed. 2007. Jesse Stuart and the Hoosier Schoolmasters [1906-1984; biography; Indiana connections]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 318 pp. Contents: Part I: Jesse Stuart’s friendship with a Hoosier schoolmaster – Part II: Jesse Stuart speaks his mind – Part III: Jesse Stuart as a regional writer – Part IV: Seven stories by Jesse Stuart – Part V: Jesse Stuart as an American humorist.
Baldacci, David. 2000. Wish You Well [fiction; 1940 Va.]. New York: Warner Books. 401 pp.
Baldacci, David. 2008. Divine Justice. New York: Grand Central Publising. 387 pp. Mystery; Va. mining town; drug traffic.
Baldwin, Kara. 2006. “‘Incredible Eloquence’: How Ron Rash’s Novels Keep the Celtic Literary Tradition Alive.” South Carolina Review 39, no. 1 (Fall): 37-45.
Bales, Evelyn M. 2003. Kinkeeper: Poems. New Women’s Voices Series, no. 18. Cincinnati: Finishing Line Press. 26 pp.
Ball, Bo. 2002 [1988]. Appalachian Patterns: Stories [11 stories; 1930s-40s Va.]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Originally published: Atlanta, Ga.: Independence Publishing Company. 162 pp.
Ballard, Sandra L. 1997. “Harriette Simpson Arnow’s Unpublished Final Novel, Belle.” Appalachian Journal 25 (Fall): 48-61.
Ballard, Sandra L., and Patricia L. Hudson, eds. 2003. Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 673 pp. Anthology of 105 writers with biographies and bibliographies: Sheila Kay Adams, Dorothy Allison, Lisa Alther, Maggie Anderson, Anne W. Armstrong, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Sylvia Trent Auxier, Marilou Awiakta, Artie Ann Bates, Frances Courtenay Baylor, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Florence Cope Bush, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Candie Carawan, Jo Carson, Rebecca Caudill, Lillie D. Chaffin, Loletta Clouse, Ann Cobb, Lisa Coffman, Amy Tipton Cortner, Lou V.P. Crabtree, Olive Tilford Dargan [Fielding Burke], Doris Davenport, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ann Deagon, Angelyn DeBord, Annie Dillard, Hilda Downer, Muriel Miller Dressler, Will Allen Dromgoole, Wilma Dykeman, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Sidney Saylor Farr, Nikky Finney, Lucy Furman, Denise Giardina, Janice Holt Giles, Nikki Giovanni, Gail Godwin, Connie Jordan Green, Virginia Hamilton, Pauletta Hansel, Corra Harris, Mildred Haun, Ellesa Clay High, Mary Bozeman Hodges, Gloria Houston, Lee Howard, Mary Johnston, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Jane Wilson Joyce, May Justus, Edith Summers Kelley, Leatha Kendrick, Barbara Kingsolver, Lisa Koger, Catherine Landis, Lily May Ledford, Grace Lumpkin, George Ella Lyon, Linda Parsons Marion, Catherine Marshall, Belinda Ann Mason, Kathy L. May, Truda Williams McCoy, Sharyn McCrumb, Jeanne McDonald, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Llewellyn McKernan, Irene McKinney, Louise McNeill, Jane Merchant, Emma Bell Miles, Heather Ross Miller, Janice Townley Moore, MariJo Moore, Mary Noailles Murfree, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Jayne Anne Phillips, Lynn Powell, Barbara Presnell, Rita Sims Quillen, Jean Ritchie, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Anne Newport Royall, Cynthia Rylant, Bettie Sellers, Mary Lee Settle, Anne Shelby, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Betsy Sholl, Ellen Harvey Showell, Bennie Lee Sinclair, Verna Mae Slone, Barbara Smith, Effie Waller Smith, Lee Smith, Jane Stuart, Adriana Trigiani, Dana Wildsmith, Sylvia Wilkinson, Meredith Sue Willis, Leigh Allison Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon.
Ballard, Sandra, Patricia Beaver, and Gurney Norman. 1997. “Water Flowing From High Ground: A Conversation; (Recorded at the Gurney Norman Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, October 25, 1996)” [interview with Gurney Norman]. The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 28-33.
Bankston, Sarah Kennedy. 2007. “Wrestling the Gorilla” [Featured Author–Darnell Arnoult; b. 1955]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 11-14.
Barker, Garry. 2003 [1986]. Mountain Passage [stories; 1940s-50s Ky.]. Reprint. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 250 pp. Originally published: Berea, Ky.: Kentucke Imprints.
Barker, Garry. 2007. Kentucky Waltz: Collected Short Fiction. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 186 pp.
Bass, Jefferson. 2007. Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel [fiction: mystery/horror; Knoxville, Tenn.; forensic anthropologist]. New York: William Morrow. 361 pp.
Bates, Artie Ann. 1995. Ragsale [children’s literature; Ky.]. Illustrated by Jeff Chapman-Crane. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 30 pp. unnumbered.
Battlo, Jean. 2002. The Mahotep Synod [murder mystery]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Company. 317 pp.
Bausch, Richard, ed. 2001. The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers [19 stories; writers include Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, and William Hoffman]. Foreword by George Garrett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 222 pp.
Bausch, Robert. 2002. The Gypsy Man [fiction; 1959 Shenandoah Mountains, Va.; outlaws]. New York: Harcourt. 495 pp.
Baxter, Tamara. 2006. Rock Big and Sing Loud [16 short stories; East Tenn. characters]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 158 pp.
Baxter, Tamara. 2008. “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine at One Hundred.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 22-27. Bestseller local-color novel by John Fox, Jr. (Scribners, 1908).
Bayens, Leah. 2005. “The Death of the Double Minded Man, or Thinking Like a Mountain: Evangelicalism, Counter Culture, and Strip Mining in Divine Right’s Trip and Kinfolks” [Gurney Norman]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 32-38.
Beattie, L. Elisabeth, ed. 1996. Conversations with Kentucky Writers. Foreword by Wade Hall, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 408 pp.
Behrend, Linda. 2006. “Wilma Dykeman at 86” [profile; 1920-2006]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 6-9.
Belanus, Betty J. 2004. Seasonal: A Novel [main character is a grad student folklorist doing summer fieldwork in 1970s East Tenn.]. Rockville, Md.: Round Barn Press. 192 pp.
Bender, Margaret, ed. 2004. Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology [nine essays: dialects: Appalachian, Melungeon, African American, Ocracoke, Lumbee, Cajun, Seminole, Muskogee]. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 37. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 160 pp.
Benedict, Laura, and Pinckney Benedict, eds. 2007. Surreal South [anthology of short fiction and poetry; 27 writers incl. Ann Pancake, Chris Offutt, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, Joyce Carol Oates]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Press 53. 378 pp.
Benedict, Laura. 2007. Isabella Moon: A Novel [supernatural; Ky.; missing child]. New York: Ballantine Books. 351 pp.
Benedict, Pinckney. 1994. Dogs of God [fiction; W.Va.]. New York: Doubleday. 354 pp.
Benjamin, John S. 2008. “Appalachian Playwright.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 1 (Winter): 29-33. Featured Author and playwright–Billy Edd Wheeler.
Bennett, Tanya Long. 1998. “The Protean Ivy in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies” [character study]. Southern Literary Journal 30 (Spring): 76-95.
Bensko, John. 2000. The Iron City [poems: Ala. coal and steel region]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 76 pp.
Benson, Erica J. 2003. “Folk Linguistic Perceptions and the Mapping of Dialect Boundaries” [Ohio; southern third, with Ky. and W.Va., labeled “hillbilly slang”; maps, table]. American Speech 78 (Fall): 307-330.
Bentley, Laura Treacy. 2006. Lake Effect: Poems [W.Va.]. Huron, Ohio: Bird Dog Publishing. 99 pp.
Berry, K. Wesley. 2000. “The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper and Child of God” [reflects “real-life economic and ecological conditions”]. Southern Quarterly 38 (Summer): 61-77.
Berry, K. Wesley. 2002. “The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia.” In Cormac McCarthy: New Directions, ed. J. Lilly, 47-73. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Berry, Wendell. 1991. Sabbaths, 1987 [poems]. Monterey, Ky.: Larkspur Press. 13 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1994. Entries. New York: Pantheon. 80 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1996. A World Lost. [fiction] Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. 160 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1997. Two More Stories of the Port William Membership [short fiction]. Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon Press. 62 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1998. A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. 240 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1998. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry [100 poems from nine previous collections]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press. 178 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 1999 [1974]. The Memory of Old Jack [Ky.; fiction classic]. Reprint. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. 223 pp. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Berry, Wendell. 2000. Jayber Crow: A Novel [barber of fictional Port William, Ky.]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint. 384 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2004 [1969]. The Long-Legged House [author’s first published collection of essays including topics: strip mining, Vietnam, citizenship]. Reprint. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 213 pp. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Berry, Wendell. 2004. Hannah Coulter: A Novel [Port William, Ky.; “in her late seventies, twice-widowed and alone, Hannah sorts through her memories”]. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 190 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2004. That Distant Land: The Collected Stories [fictional Port William, Ky.: 23 stories spanning 1888-1986]. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 440 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2005. “My Conversation with Gurney Norman.” Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 19-21.
Berry, Wendell. 2005. Given: New Poems. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 152 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2006. Andy Catlett: Early Travels [fiction; 9-year-old’s rite of passage; 1943 Port William, Ky.]. Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 140 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2007. “A Master Language.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 229-231. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Sewanee Review 105, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 418-421.
Berry, Wendell. 2007. “Sabbaths 2005” [poetry]. Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 57, no.2 (Fall): 5-16. Sidebar: “Selected Books by Wendell Berry” [13 titles], 17.
Berry, Wendell. 2007. “Singing to Keep the Mind Awake: Interview with Wendell Berry.” By Birkin Gilmore. Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 57, no.2 (Fall): 18-30. Interview conducted March 13, 2005 at Berry’s home, Port Royal, Ky.
Berry, Wendell. 2007. Conversations with Wendell Berry [17 interviews reprinted, 1973-2006]. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs. Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 218 pp.
Berry, Wendell. 2007. Window Poems. With wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 80 pp. Formerly published, Carrollton, Ohio: Press on Scroll Road, 2003. First published in 1985 in the author’s Collected poems, 1957-1982.
Berry, Wendell. 2008. The Mad Farmer Poems. With a foreword by Ed McClanahan, an introduction by James Baker Hall, an afterword by William Kloefkorn, and engravings by Abigail Rorer. New York: Counterpoint Press. 26 pp.
Beyers, Chris. 2003. “Louis Zukofsky in Kentucky in History” [1904-1978; his epic poem “A”; Kentucky theme, 1963; chairmaker Chester Cornett; Marx, Spinoza]. College Literature 30 (Fall): 71-88.
Biggers, Jeff. 2008. “The Pride and Prejudice of Don West” [1906-1992]. Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 4 (Fall): 11-18. Featured Author; biography.
Billheimer, John W. 2003. Drybone Hollow [fiction/mystery; W.Va. coal sludge dam burst]. New York: St. Martin’s. 276 pp.
Billheimer, John W. 2006. Stonewall Jackson’s Elbow: An Owen Allison Mystery [W.Va.]. Waterville, Me.: Five Star. 375 pp.
Billheimer, John. 1998. The Contrary Blues [first novel; mystery; Huntington, W.Va.]. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 244 pp.
Billheimer, John. 2000. Highway Robbery [fiction/mystery; Huntington, W.Va.]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 290 pp.
Billheimer, John. 2001. Dismal Mountain [fiction/mystery; W.Va.; 3rd in a series]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 320 pp.
Billips, Martha. 1999. Review of Between the Flowers, by Harriette Simpson Arnow (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999). Appalachian Heritage 27 (Fall): 69-72.
Billips, Martha. 2003. “Reclaiming Ravaged Land: The Arnows of Keno and Nunn Ballew of Hunter’s Horn” [1949; Harriette Arnow (1908-1986)]. Journal of Kentucky Studies 20 (September): 130-139.
Billips, Martha. 2005. “The Writer and the Land: Harriette Simpson Arnow and the Genesis of Her Novel Between the Flowers” [Michigan State University Press (1999); Mich. and Ky. farm life; advocate for sustainable agriculture]. Appalachian Journal 32, no. 4 (Summer): 468-482.
Billips, Martha. 2007. “‘What a Wild and Various State’: Virginia in Lee Smith’s Oral History” [(1983); “a metaphor for the position of Appalachia within the nation”]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 13, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 26-48.
Billy Edd Wheeler, Featured Author [b. 1932; Boone, Co., W.Va.]. 2008. Special issue, Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 1 (Winter): 1-47, with 19 of Wheeler’s paintings displayed throughout the issue. Humor, poem, memoir, and story contributions with a bonus CD of songs by the author, plus four appreciations by others.
Birdseye, Tom. 1993. Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap!: An Appalachian Folktale [children’s literature; “A forgetful boy gets himself into trouble when he repeats what each person he meets on the road says to him”]. Retold by Tom Birdsey; illustrated by Andrew Glass. New York: Holiday House. 16 leaves, unpaged.
Bizarro, Patrick, ed. 1997. Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell [interview; 17 essays]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 256 pp.
Bizarro, Patrick, ed. 2004. More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell [15 essays]. With a foreword by Robert Morgan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 288 pp.
Bizarro, Patrick. 2004. “‘Growth of a Poet’s Mind’ and the Problem of Autobiography: Distance and Point of View in the Writings of Fred Chappell.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 72-91. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Bizarro, Patrick. 2004. “Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie” [1999 novel by Robert Morgan]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Summer): 29-35.
Bizarro, Patrick. 2005. “Representations of Truth in Maggie Anderson’s Poetry: ‘beautiful nostalgia,’ education, and permanence.” The Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 20-26.
Blevins, Adrian. 2003. The Brass Girl Brouhaha [poems]. Keene, N.Y.: Ausable Press. 112 pp.
Blevins, Christine. 2008. The Midwife of the Blue Ridge: A Novel. New York: Berkley Publishing Group. 420 pp. Historical fiction; 18th century Scottish indentured servant and pioneer.
Bloom, Harold, ed. 2002. Cormac McCarthy [12 essays, chronology, bibliography]. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. 201 pp.
Blount, Roy, Jr. 2004. “How to Talk Southern” [review essay of Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English (University of Tennessee Press, 2004)]. New York Times Book Review, 21 November, 32-33.
Bogess, Ace, ed. 2005. Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great Poetry from West Virginia [60 poets; supplements Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999, eds. B. Smith and K. Judd (2000)]. Huntington, W.Va.: Publishers Place. 233 pp.
Boggess, Ace, ed. 2004. Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great Poetry from West Virginia [follow-up anthology: 60 poets, 200 poems]. Huntington, W.Va.: Publishers Place. 233 pp.
Boggess, Carol. 2007. “Journeys of Childhood in the Fiction.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 49-63. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Boggess, Carol. 2007. “The Still Life in River of Earth: Exploring the Novel’s Biographical Context.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 49-63. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Journal 30, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 324-344.
Boggess, Carol. 2008. “A Friendship between the Last American Cowboy and the Man in the Bushes.” Appalachian Heritage, 36, no. 4 (Fall): 21-27. Don West (1906-1992), Featured Author, and James Still (1906-2001).
Bondurant, Matt. 2008. The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story. New York: Scribner. 307 pp. Southwest Va.; gritty, Depression-era bootlegging mystery.
Bone, Patrick. 2001. A Melungeon Winter [mystery; Melungeon hermit; 1950s]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Silver Dagger Mysteries. 202 pp.
Bone, Patrick. 2002. Aliens of Transylvania County. Johnson City, Tenn.: Silver Dagger Mysteries. 153 pp. “A tale of friendship, alien invaders, and Appalachian mountain legend that takes place in the back-country near Brevard, North Carolina, in the 1950s.”
Bottoms, Greg. 2001. Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories [Shenandoah Valley characters; reminiscent of Breece D’J Pancake]. New York: Context Books. 215 pp.
Bourne, Frank Edward. 2002. “Conversation with James Still” [excerpts from the author’s journal: 1986, 1997]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Winter): 26-32.
Bouson, J. Brooks. 2001. “‘You Nothing But Trash’: White Trash Shame in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.” Southern Literary Journal 34 (Fall): 101-123.
Bradby, Marie. 1995. More Than Anything Else [children’s literature; nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he’ll be able to read; African Americans]. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. New York: Orchard Books. 16 leaves, unpaged.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. 2002. Halfway to the Sky [juvenile fiction; Appalachian Trail; 12-year-old’s coming-of-age]. New York: Delacorte. 176 pp.
Brand, Irene B., Gina Fields, JoAnn A. Grote, and Catherine Runyon. 2005 [2000]. Appalachia: Love Nestles into Four Mountain Towns [four novellas; romance; Christian fiction]. Paperback reprint. Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Publishing. 460 pp.
Brandt, Ann. 1999. Crowfoot Ridge [first novel; romance/suspense; N.C.]. New York: HarperCollins. 278 pp.
Brewer, Dennis L. 2005. Memories of a Forgotten Time [ten short stories and ghost tales]. Richmond, Ky.: Mountain Memories. 120 pp.
Brewton, Vince. 2004. “The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s Early Novels and the Border Trilogy.” Southern Literary Journal 37 (Fall): 121-143.
Brickman, Barbara Jane. 2000. “Imposition and Resistance in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper.” Southern Quarterly 38 (Winter): 123-134.
Bridgers, Sue Ellen. 1996. All We Know of Heaven [fiction; N.C.]. Wilmington, N.C.: Banks Channel Books. 212 pp.
Brooks, James. 2000. Comeback of the Bears: A Novel [Cherokee, N.C.]. Knoxville, Tenn.: Klarus Syndicate Press. 371 pp.
Brooks, Skip. 2002. Monteith’s Mountains [murder mystery set in 1900, logging-era Gatlinburg, Tenn.]. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 288 pp.
Brosi, George. 1997. “Jim Wayne Miller: Chronological Bibliography” [30 entries; annotated]. Appalachian Heritage 25 (Fall): 51-54.
Brosi, George. 2002. “Appalachian Literature” [history]. In The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, eds. J. Flora and L. Mackethan, 43-48. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Brosi, George. 2002. “Elizabeth Madox Roberts” [1881-1941]. In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 349-353. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Brosi, George. 2004. “A Voice for Country Working People” [Silas House profiled]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Spring): 9-15.
Brosi, George. 2004. “A Conversation with Lisa Alther.” Appalachian Heritage 32 (Winter): 9-12.
Brosi, George. 2004. “Robert Morgan’s Mountain Roots” [b. 1944, Henderson Co., N.C.]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Summer): 8-9.
Brosi, George. 2004. “Sharyn McCrumb: A Contemporary Bard.” Appalachian Heritage 32 (Fall): 19-23.
Brosi, George. 2005. “A Rising Star in Appalachian Literature” [Gretchen Moran Laskas]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 1 (Winter): 8-12.
Brosi, George. 2005. “Gurney Norman” [biographical profile; b. 1937]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 9-15.
Brosi, George. 2005. “The Heart-Wrenching Life of Emma Bell Miles” [1879-1919; Tenn.]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 4 (Fall): 11-21.
Brosi, George. 2006. “The Life of a Literary Freedom Seeker” [Mary Lee Settle, biographical overview; 1918-2005]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 16-25.
Brosi, George. 2006. “This Side of the Mountain” [essay: values and traditions of Appalachian Literature as a distinct field of study, from Cratis Williams’s 1961 dissertation to today’s “new minorities”]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 4-6.
Brosi, George. 2007. “A Journey That Continues to Ennoble” [Featured Author–Earl Hamner; The Waltons]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 2 (Spring): 9-17.
Brosi, George. 2007. “This Side of the Mountain” [homage to Wilma Dykeman, d. Dec. 23, 2006]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 2 (Spring): 4-5.
Brosi, George. 2007. “This Side of the Mountain” [Appalachian “literary canon?”; anthologies, genres, insiders/outsiders]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 6-7.
Brosi, George. 2008. “A Tribute to George Garrett (1929-2008).” Appalachian Heritage, 36, no. 4 (Fall): 62. Garrett’s poem, “A Little Night Music (A Prose Poem),” is published on page 63. Garrett served as Poet Laureate of Va., 2002-2006.
Brosi, George. 2008. “Versatile is Billy Edd Wheeler.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 1 (Winter): 20-23. Featured Author; b. 1932, Boone County, W.Va.
Brouwer, Sigmund. 2008. Broken Angel: A Novel. Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press. 243 pp. Christian fiction; futuristic dystopia; controlling-fundamentalists.
Brown, Bill. 2000. “A Gathering of Light: The Gift of Landscape in the Poetry of George Scarbrough.” The Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 10-13.
Brown, Elizabeth Ferguson. 2003. Coal Country Christmas [children’s literature]. Illustrations by Harvey Stevenson. Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press. 30 pp., unnumbered.
Brown, Fred, and Jeanne McDonald. 2005 [1997]. Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers. Reprint. Berkeley, Calif.: Apocryphile Press. 285 pp. Originally published: Greenville, S.C.: Blue Ridge Publishing. [Contents: Shelby Foote / Lee Smith / Yusef Komunyakaa / George Garrett / Doris Betts / Fred Chappell / Jayne Anne Phillips / Richard Marius / Elizabeth Cox / Alan Wier / Elizabeth Spencer / Willie Morris / Eudora Welty].
Brown, Harry. 2001. Ego’s Eye and Other Poems. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Poetry Press. 53 pp.
Brown, Harry. 2001. Everything Is Its Opposite and Other Poems. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Poetry Press. 55 pp.
Brown, Harry. 2005. Felt Along the Blood: New & Selected Poems. Edited and with a foreword by Steven R. Cope. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 93 pp.
Brown, Joyce Compton. 2000. “The World of Sharyn McCrumb: Timelessness and Change in the Appalachian Mountains.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 17 (September): 79-89.
Brown, Joyce Compton. 2002. “Horrifying, Brave and Beautiful: Poetic Realism and Appalachian Outmigration in the Poetry of Jeanne Bryner.” Appalachian Heritage 30 (Spring): 31-36.
Brown, Joyce Compton. 2002. “The Dark and Clear Vision of Ron Rash.” Appalachian Heritage 30 (Fall): 15-24.
Brown, Joyce Compton. 2003. “The World of Sharyn McCrumb: Mountain Communities Caught within Tradition and Change.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 159-168. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Brown, Joyce Compton. 2006. “Rising Out of the Wasteland: Images of Death, Decay, and Rebirth in the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb.” The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 15-23.
Bruckheimer, Linda. 2004. The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way [fiction; Ky.]. New York: Dutton. 359 pp.
Bryan, Jennifer Liu, with Hazel Cole Kendle. 2008. Cole Family Christmas. Illustrations by Jenniffer Julich. Boca Grande, Fla: Next Chapter Press. 74 pp. Children’s literature, based on coal miner family in 1919, Benham, Ky.
Bryner, Jeanne. 1995. Breathless [poems]. Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, no. 7. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 26 pp.
Bryner, Jeanne. 1999. Blind Horse: Poems [focus on outmigration to Ohio steel mills]. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 100 pp.
Bryner, Jeanne. 2003. Eclipse: Stories [small-town W.Va., Ohio, Pa.]. Working Lives Series. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 149 pp.
Bryner, Jeanne. 2005. “Moments of Grace: My Writing Life.” Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 1 (Winter): nonfiction section, 1400 words. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-1/non-fiction/Bryner.htm.
Bryson, J. Scott. 2005. “Divided against Ourselves: Wendell Berry.” Chap. 2 in The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry, 23-44. [book also examines the poetry of Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin]. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Buchanan, Harriette C. 2001. “Gathering ‘Scattered Allegiances’: The Alther Heroine’s Journey ‘in Search of Labels’” [novelist Lisa Alther]. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 8-15.
Buchanan, Harriette C. 2004. “Ambivalence Towards Home and Heritage for Lisa Alther’s Appalachian Characters.” Appalachian Heritage 32 (Winter): 31-34.
Buchanan, Ron. 2000. “‘To Cause No One Pain’: The Ethical Imperative in William Hoffman’s Literature.” In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 44-57. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Bundrick, Christopher. 2007. “‘Foolin’ with Me Is Like Makin’ Faces at a Rattlesnake’: Signifyin(g) in Mary N. Murfree’s ‘Electioneerin’ on Big Injun Mounting’” [one of eight stories from In the Tennessee Mountains (1884); upends frontier humor literary tradition]. Appalachian Journal 35, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2007/Winter 2008): 76-88.
Burack, Cynthia. 2006. “Mountain Mann: A Biographical Sketch” [W.Va. poet and writer Jeff Mann; b. 1959]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 10-12.
Burgess, Scott. 2001. Once to Die [fiction; W.Va.]. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 288 pp.
Burton-Hardee, Carmen. 2002. “Red Dirt Girl as Hero: Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller as Southern White Trash Hero” [New York: Dutton, 1998). Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 25, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter): 243-245.
Burton-Hardee, Carmen. 2002. “Red Dirt Girl as Hero: Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller as Southern White Trash Hero.” Journal of American Comparative Cultures 25 (Fall & Winter): 243-245.
Butterworth, D. S. 2002. “Pearls as Swine: Recentering the Marginal in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree” [1979]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 131-137. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Buttram, Larry. 2004. False Witness [fiction; 1963 East Tenn. race relations]. Manassas Park, Va.: New Virginia Publications. 336 pp.
Buttram, Larry. 2004. False Witness [fiction; 1956-1971 East Tenn.; murder mystery]. Manassas Park, Va.: New Virginia Publications. 351 pp.
Byer, Katherine Stripling. 2006. Coming to Rest: Poems [N.C. Poet Laureate]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 63 pp.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling (moderator), with David Huddle, Michael McFee, and Ron Rash. 2007. “Continuity and Change: Future Directions in Appalachian Literature” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 53-57.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling, and Louanne K. Watley. 2002. “EVElyn Photos and Poems” [special feature]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Fall): 64-75.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling. 1998. Black Shawl: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 64 pp.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling. 2002. Catching Light: Poems [collection of the EVElyn poems]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 62 pp.
Byer, Kathryn Stripling. 2003. Wake: Poems [limited edition]. Sylva, N.C.: Spring Street Editions. 17 pp.
Byrd, Linda. 1998. “The Emergence of the Sacred Sexual Mother in Lee Smith’s Oral History.” Southern Literary Journal 31 (Fall): 119-142.
Byrd-Cook, Linda J. 2002. “Reconciliation with the Great Mother Goddess in Lee Smith’s Saving Grace [New York: Putnam’s, 1995]. Southern Quarterly 40 (Summer): 97-112.
Byron Herbert Reece [featured historical author; 1917-1958]. 2003. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 56-72.
Cadle, Dean. 2007. “Man on Troublesome.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 197-208. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Yale Review 57, no. 2 (December 1967): 236-255.
Cahalan, James M. 1996. “Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner” [Indiana Co., Pa., roots]. Western American Literature 31 (November): 233-253.
Caldwell, Wayne. 2007. Cataloochee: A Novel [N.C. mountains; three families: 1864-1928]. New York: Random House. 352 pp.
Camhi, Rebecca Cale. 2001. Deepwater Mountain: A Novel of West Virginia [historical novel, 1861-1961]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co. 372 pp.
Campbell, H. H. 2000. “Lee Smith and the Bronte Sisters” [Oral History (1984); Wuthering Heights (1847)]. Southern Literary Journal 38 (Fall): 141-149.
Cant, John. 2008. Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism. New York: Routledge. 368 pp. Sixteen chapters, one for each of his published works; Part I: Biography and Tennessee Background; Part II: The Tennessee Texts; Part III: The Southwestern Texts.
Cantrell, James P. 2006. How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co. 326 pp.
Carden, Gary. 2000. Mason Jars in the Flood and Other Stories [1940s-50s N.C.]. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 210 pp.
Carrella, Vincent Louis. 2008. Serpent Box: A Novel [Tenn. “snake child”]. New York: Harper Perennial. 462 pp.
Carson, Jo. 2007. Teller Tales: Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press. 138 pp. Two performance narratives set in 18th-century East Tenn. and N.C.: “What Sweet Lips Can Do” and “Men of Their Time.” (Overmountain Men, Battle of King’s Mountain; and white-Cherokee relationships).
Carson, Jo. 2008. Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling. New York: Theatre Communications Group. 221 pp.
Carter, Catherine. 2006. The Memory of Gills: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 59 pp.
Carver, Bill. 1999. Branch Water Tales. Andrews, N.C.: Mountain Voice Publishers. 221 pp.
Caseley, Martin. 2000. “Through Purgatory to Appalachia” [interview; Charles P. Wright]. PN Review 27 (September-October): 22-25.
Cash, Wiley. 2007. “The Thomas Wolfe Society” [begun 1980; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 64-65.
Cawood, Chris. 1995. Tennessee’s Coal Creek War: Another Fight for Freedom [historical fiction; Lake City, Tenn.; convict labor; strikes; women]. Kingston, Tenn.: Magnolia Hill Press. 266 pp.
Ceder, Georgiana Dorcas. 1962. Winter Without Salt [children’s fiction; frontier Ky.; Indian threat]. Illustrations by Charles Walker. New York: Morrow. 125 pp.
Celebrating Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005). 2006. Special issue, Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 1-102.
Cella, Laurie J. C. 2007. “Radical Romance in the Piedmont: Olive Tilford Dargan’s Gastonia Novels” [Call Home the Heart (1932) and A Stone Came Rolling (1935)]. The Southern Literary Journal 39, no. 2 (Spring): 37-57.
Chappell, Fred (moderator), with Lisa Alther, Jo Carson, John Ehle, and Lee Smith. 2007. “Humor and the Oral Tradition in Appalachian Literature” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 32-38.
Chappell, Fred, and Donald Harington. 2002. “‘The Southern Highlands as Literary Landscape’: An Interview with Fred Chappell and Donald Harington.” Interview by Gene Hyde. Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 86-98.
Chappell, Fred, ed. 2003. Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers [incl. Wendell Berry, Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, George Scarbrough, Charles Wright, and 13 others]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 134 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 1994 [1973]. The Gaudy Place. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 178 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 1995. Spring Garden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 158 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 1996. Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You. [fiction] New York: St. Martin's/Picador. 220 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 1999. Look Back All the Green Valley [fiction]. New York: Picador USA. 288 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 2000 [1975]. River: A Poem. Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 64 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 2000. “Taking Measure: Violent Intruders in William Hoffman’s Short Fiction.” In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 9-23. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Chappell, Fred. 2000. “The Waters of Memory” [reflections on writing poetry]. Sewanee Review 108 (Spring): 234-248.
Chappell, Fred. 2000. Family Gathering: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 72 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 2002 [1968, 1987]. Dagon [“Lovecraftian” fiction; author is Poet Laureate of N.C.]. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 177 pp. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Chappell, Fred. 2002. “Treasures of Ruin: Donald Harington’s Covert I” [Ozark novelist]. Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 9-19.
Chappell, Fred. 2003. “An Interview.” By Casey Clabough. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 35-41.
Chappell, Fred. 2004. “Morgan’s Things” [reviews Robert Morgan’s short-story volume, The Balm of Gilead Tree (Gnomon Press, 1999)]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Summer): 19-26.
Chappell, Fred. 2004. “Too Many Freds.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 256-271. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Chappell, Fred. 2004. Backsass: Poems [N.C. Poet Laureate, 1998-2003]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 54 pp.
Chappell, Fred. 2005. “Wind-Voices: Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Poetry.” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 55, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 64-82.
Chappell, Fred. 2006. Review essay of High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright, ed. Adam Giannelli (Oberlin College Press, 2006). Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 80-86.
Chappell, Fred. 2007. “‘Menfolks Are Heathens’: Cruelty in the Short Stories.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 96-102. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Iron Mountain Review 2, no. 1 (Summer 1984): 11-15.
Chappell, Fred. 2007. “The Seamless Vision.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 222-228. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Journal 8, no. 3 (Spring 1981): 196-202.
Cheek, Pauline, and Brian Cole. 1999. “The Call of Place in Denise Giardina’s Saints and Villains” [1998]. Part I. “Whose Side Are You On?” by Pauline Cheek. Part II. “Bonhoeffer Today”, by Brian Cole. The Iron Mountain Review 15 (Spring): 22-30.
Cherry, Kelly. 2004. “On Reading The Inkling by Fred Chappell in a Building on the UNC-G Campus” [c. 1965]. In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 27. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Chitwood, Michael, and Michael McFee. 2003. “Getting at the Secrets of Things: A Conversation” [interview recorded at the Michael McFee Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, October 4, 2002]. The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 29-38.
Chitwood, Michael. 1995. Whet: Poems. Athens: Ohio Review Books. 58 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 1998. Hitting Below the Bible Belt: Baptist Voodoo, Blood Kin, Grandma’s Teeth, and Other Stories from the South. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press. 142 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 1998. The Weave Room [poems; J.P. Stevens Co. textile mill community; Franklin Co., Va.]. Phoenix Poets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 82 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 2002. Gospel Road Going: Poems. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Tryon Publishing. 70 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 2005. “Lucky Mornings” [of Michael McFee as book reviewer for public radio]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 2 (Spring): 27-28.
Chitwood, Michael. 2007. From Whence: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 62 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 2007. Spill: Poems. Dorset, Vt.: Tupelo Press. 61 pp.
Chitwood, Michael. 2008. New poems and a short essay for the “Michael Chitwood” special issue, Iron Mountain Review 24 (Spring): 4-10. Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis as Explored in a Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon – Amen to the Ax – Dead Lilac as a Figure for the Afterlife – South of South Hill – Every Head Bowed, Every Eye Closed – Up a Tree.
Christianson, Scott R. 2003. “Four Quartets: Fred Chappell’s Midquest and T. S. Eliot” [c. 1981]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 49-53.
Chung, Haeja K. 1995. "Harriette Simpson Arnow's Authorial Testimony: Toward a Reading of 'The Dollmaker'." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36 (Spring): 211-223.
Chung, Haeja K., ed. 1995. Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 301 pp.
Ciuba, Gary M. 2002. “McCarthy’s Enfant Terrible: Mimetic Desire and Sacred Violence in Child of God” [1974]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 93-102. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Ciuba, Gary M. 2007. “McCarthy’s Enfant Terrible: Incarnating Sacred Violence in Child of God” [Random House, 1973]. Chap 4 in Desire, Violence & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy, by G. Ciuba, 165-199. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Clabough, Casey Howard. 2005. Experimentation and Versatility: The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell. Macon, Ga.: Mercer Univ Press. 182 pp.
Clabough, Casey. 2003. “Experimentation and Versatility: Fred Chappell’s Fiction.” Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 27-34.
Clabough, Casey. 2003. “Representing Urban Appalachia: Fred Chappell’s The Gaudy Place” [1973 novel; modeled on Asheville, N.C.]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Spring): 68-92.
Clabough, Casey. 2005. “Two Views of the Mountains: Appalachian Literature at a Crossroads” [James Dickey]. The South Carolina Review 37, no. 2: 233-235.
Clabough, Casey. 2007. “The Imagined South.” Sewanee Review 115, no. 2 (Spring): 301-307. Review essay of An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, eds. Danny
L. Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman (Ohio University Press, 2005); At Home in the Heart of Appalachia, by John O’Brien (Knopf, 2001); and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, eds. S. Jones and S. Monteith (Louisiana State University Press, 2002).
Clabough, Casey. 2007. “The Truths of William Hoffman’s Fiction, New and Old.” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 57, no.1 (Spring): 92-100.
Clark, Amy. 2000. “Can’t Pronounce ‘Appalachia’? Then Don’t Mess With Us” [dialect]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 29-30.
Clark, Billy C. 1994 [1964]. Goodbye Kate. Reprint, edited with an introduction by Jerry A. Herndon. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation.
Clark, Billy C. 1994 [1957]. Song of the River. [Clark’s first novel. “...tells the story of a Big Sandy River shantyboatman named John and his lifelong obsession with catching a huge catfish called Scrapiron Jack”]. Drawings by Ezra Jack Keats. Introduction by Gurney Norman. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 176 pp. Originally published, New York: Crowell.
Clark, Billy C. 1995 [1958]. The Mooneyed Hound [children’s fiction; coon hound]. Illustrated by Jim Marsh. Reprint, edited by James M. Gifford, Patricia A. Hall, and Chuck D. Charles. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 144 pp.
Clark, Billy C. 1999. To Leave My Heart at Catlettsburg [Ky.; poems]. With an introduction by Edwina Pendarvis. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 80 pp.
Clark, Billy C. 2000. By Way of the Forked Stick [four short stories]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 149 pp.
Clark, Billy C. 2001 [1968]. Sourwood Tales [1930s Ky.; Big Sandy River; 18 short stories]. Reprint. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 256 pp. Originally published: New York: Putnam.
Clark, Billy C. 2002. Creeping from Winter [poems]. Farmville, Va. (P.O. Box 324, Farmville 23901-0324): Persimmon Hill. 72 pp.
Clark, Billy C. 2003 [1966]. The Champion of Sourwood Mountain. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 251 pp. Originally published: New York: Putnam.
Clark, Billy C. 2003. Miss America Kissed Caleb: Stories [11 stories; sketches from 1940s, small-town “Sourwood,” Ky.]. Kentucky Voices. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 173 pp.
Clark, Billy C. 2007. To Catch an Autumn [poems]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 76 pp.
Clark, Billy C. [1957] 1995. The Trail of the Hunter's Horn. Reprint, Ashland: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 96 pp.
Clark, Jim, ed. 2001. Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece [Ga.; 1917-1958]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 160 pp.
Clark, Jim. 1997 [1983]. Dancing on Canaan’s Ruins [poems/quest motif; N.C., Tenn.]. Reprint. Wilson, N.C.: Eternal Delight Productions. 64 pp. Originally published: Memphis, Tenn.: Ars Gratiis.
Clark, Jim. 1999. Handiwork: Poems. Laurinburg, N.C.: St. Andrews College Press. 79 pp.
Clark, Jim. 2002. “A Strong and Lonely Voice” [Byron Herbert Reece]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Winter): 27-31.
Clark, Jim. 2003. “Three Uncollected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece.” Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 58-62.
Clark, Jim. 2004. “Circles of Influence and Confluence: One Writer’s Inspirations” [Byron Herbert Reece]. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 2, no. 2 (Winter-Spring): Non-Fiction section, 50 paras. http://nantahalareview.org/issue2-2/non-fiction/CLARK.htm.
Clark, Jim. 2007. Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany: Prose and Poems, 1983-2006. Foreword by Jeff Daniel Marion. Mount Olive, N.C.: Rank Stranger Press. 279 pp., plus sound disc.
Clark, Martin. 2008. The Legal Limit. New York: Knopf. 356 pp. Fiction; Patrick County, Va; two brothers: a lawyer and a drug offender.
Claybough, Casey. 2004. “Will, Appetite, Alchemy, Faulkner, and Two French Poets: Fred Chappell’s The Inkling” [Harcourt, Brace & World (1965)]. Southern Quarterly 42 (Summer): 5-18.
Clifford, Emmett. 1998. Night Whispers: A Story of Evil [contemporary murder mystery set in East Tenn.]. Nashville: Cumberland House. 429 pp.
Clouse, Loletta. 2002 [1990]. Wilder [fiction; 1932 Wilder, Tenn., coal mining town and strike]. Reprint. Knoxville, Tenn.: Chicory Books. 252 pp. Originally published: Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press.
Clouse, Loletta. 2002. The Homesteads [fiction; Cumberland Homesteads, Tenn.; New Deal experimental community]. Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Publishing. 282 pp.
Cobb, Ann. 2003. Kinfolks & Other Selected Poems [vernacular poems from 1920s-1930s Knott Co., Ky., collected by Ann Cobb (1874-1960)]. Edited with an introduction by Jeff Daniel Marion. Hindman, Ky.: Hindman Settlement School. 113 pp. (This edition includes all of Cobb’s 1922 collection, Kinfolks, Kentucky Mountain Rhymes, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin).
Coberly, Lenore M. 2002. The Handywoman Stories [20 stories; W.Va.; WWII-era]. Athens, Oh.: Swallow Press. 192 pp.
Coberly, Lenore McComas. 2004. “Big Ugly Creek, West Virginia: Interview with Writer Lenore McComas Coberly” [Lincoln Co. poet, fiction writer, editor, and retired teacher]. Interview by Paul Salstrom. Appalachian Journal 31 (Spring/Summer): 368-387.
Coberly, Lenore McComas. 2007. Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek [fiction; W.Va.; multi-generational chronicle; hardships]. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. 157 pp.
Cochran, Heather. 2004. Mean Season [fiction; W.Va.; comic story]. Don Mills, Ont., Canada: Red Dress Ink. 295 pp.
Cocke, Dudley, Donna Porterfield, and Edward Wemytewa, eds. 2002. Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration [Corn Mountain/Pine Mountain bilingual play]. Zuni, N.M.: Zuni A:shiwi Publishing. 106 pp., plus music CD.
Coe, Marian. 1998. Eve’s Mountain [mystery/romance novel; N.C.]. Little Switzerland, N.C.: SouthLore Press. 362 pp.
Coe, Marian. 2004. Once Upon a Different Time: An Appalachian Adventure Inspired by the Writings of Charles Dudley Warner [1829-1900; fiction; 1884 horseback trek to Asheville, N.C.]. Illustrations by Paul Zipperlin. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 141 pp.
Coleman, Ralph. 1998. “A Skiff of Snow” [poems; Wythe Co., Va.]. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press.
Collett, Dexter. 1994. Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Pertaining to Southern Appalachian Literature, 1912-1991. Berea: Appalachian Imprints. 136 pp.
Collins, Maurice. 2000. “The Molly Maguires and the Continued Influence of Nineteenth-Century Labor Fiction.” In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film, ed. W. Thesing, 166-185. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Collins, Tess. 2005 [1999]. The Law of the Dead [Ky. mystery; woman lawyer]. New York: iUniverse. 327 pp. Originally published by Ballantine.
Collins, Tess. 2006. The Law of Betrayal [Ky. murder mystery]. New York: iUniverse. 281 pp.
Collins, Tina Rae. 2002. The Soup Bean War [adolescent fiction; family life; Ky.]. Illustrated by Luke Roberts. Pikeville, Ky.: M.F. Sohn Publications. 97 pp.
Collins, Tina Rae. 2006. The Melting Pot [adolescent fiction; Eastern Ky.; autobiographical]. Baltimore: PublishAmerica. 98 pp.
Comer, Melissa. 1999. “Rob, Mary Call, and Me: The Search for Self in Appalachian Literature” [young adult Appalachian literature as a genre; bibliography]. New Advocate: For Those Involved with Young People and Their Literature 12 (Spring): 141-153.
Connor, Beverly. 2000. Airtight Case: A Lindsay Chamberlain Novel [mystery; Great Smoky Mountains]. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House. 423 pp.
Conway, Cecelia. 1999. “Slashing the Homemade Quilt in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven.” NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 138-156.
Conway, Cecelia. 2002. “Robert Morgan’s Mountain Voice and Lucid Prose.” Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 180-199.
Cook, Martha E. 2000. “Faith and Time: William Hoffman’s View of the Future in The Dark Mountains [his fourth novel, 1963]. In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 121-132. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Cooke, Grace MacGowan. 2003 [1910]. The Power and the Glory: A Novel of Appalachia [Tenn. cotton mill; heroine labor reformer]. Reprint, with an introduction by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 373 pp. Originally published: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Cope, Stephen R. 2005. Crow! The Children’s Poems [200 witty, playful poems; drawings]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 156 pp.
Cope, Stephen R. 2005. The Furrbawl Poems: Uncollected Poems 1973-1993. Frankfort, Ky.: Broadstone Books. 174 pp.
Cope, Steven R. 2003. The Book of Saws: Fables & Tales. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 126 pp.
Cope, Steven R. 2004. “Excerpts from The Appalaches” [25 proverbs]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Fall): 70.
Cope, Steven R. 2004. Clover’s Log [poems]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 97 pp.
Cope, Steven R. 2007. “Mountain Proverbs from The Appalaches” [list of 225 proverbs]. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Non-Fiction section, 1400 words. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/non-fiction/Nonfiction4Cope.htm.
Core, George. 2000. “Introduction.” In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 1-8. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Corso, Paola. 2004. Death by Renaissance: Poems and Photos [post-industrial mill town Tarentum, Pa.; Allegheny River Valley]. Working Lives Series. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 103 pp.
Cortner, Amy Tipton. 2005. Nazotus: A Novel of Manners, Appropriate, and Not [fiction, by the author of The Hillbilly Vampire (1992)]. San Diego, Calif.: Highland Creek Books. 267 pp.
Countess, Mary Alice. 2001. Cowpath Days [elementary/adolescent fiction; rural farm life, Stokes Co., N.C.]. Illustrations by Susan Daggett. Pleasant Garden, N.C.: Viewpoint Press. 128 pp.
Covington, Vicki. 2001 [1992]. Night Ride Home” [novel; 1939 Ala. mining town]. Reprint, with a new interview with the author. Literature and the Religious Spirit, no. 2. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press. 228 pp.
Cox, Rosemary. 2004. “The Shape of Truth: Men and Women in Fred Chappell’s More Shapes Than One” [St. Martin’s Press, 1991]. In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 150-166. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Crabtree, Lou. 1998. The River Hills and Beyond: Poems. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press. 53 pp.
Craddock, Charles Egbert (pseud.). See: Murfree, Mary Noailles.
Cramer, W. Dale. 2002. Sutter’s Cross [Christian fiction; northern Ga.]. Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House. 394 pp.
Crandell, Doug. 2007. The Flawless Skin of Ugly People: A Novel [North Ga.; N.C. weight-loss clinic]. New York: Virgin Books. 211 pp.
Crooker, Barbara. 2008. Line Dance: Poems. Cincinnati, Oh.: Word Press. 78 pp.
Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual [essays, memoirs, poems, shorts stories]. 2004– . Edited by Ted Olson. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press.
Crowder-Vaughn, Scott. 2003. “Lot in Life: Names and Places in Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Series.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 81-92. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Crowe, Thomas Rain. 1998. “Rocks in the Stream: A Conversation with Jim Wayne Miller” [excerpt of a 1989 interview published in the Asheville Poetry Review 3 (Fall/Winter) 1996]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 17-20.
Crowe, Thomas Rain. 2004. “Diversity As the Spice of Life: A Conversation with Western North Carolina Poet Thomas Rain Crowe.” Interview by the editors. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 2, no. 2 (Winter-Spring): Interview section, 60 paras. http://nantahalareview.org/issue2-2/view/interview.htm with linked MP3 clip.
Crowther, Hal. 2007. “A Man of the World.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 242-245. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Oxford American (Fall 2001): 11-13.
Crowther, Hal. 2007. “On the Occasion of James Still’s 100th Birthday.” Appalachian Journal 34, no. 2 (Winter): 186-190. Memorial essay delivered at Hindman Settlement School, August 2, 2006.
Crum, Claude Lafie. 2005. “Constructing a Marketable Writer: James Still’s Fictional Persona” [references Dean Cadle’s treatment of Still as a backwoods, romantic persona in a 1968 article in The Yale Review]. Appalachian Journal 32, no. 4 (Summer): 430-439.
Crum, Claude Lafie. 2007. River of Words: James Still’s Literary Legacy [1906-2001; critical study: novels, short stories poetry, children’s literature]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 188 pp.
Crum, Shutta. 2003. Spitting Image [first novel; grades 5-8; 12-year-old girl’s coming-of-age; 1960s Ky.]. New York: Clarion Books. 218 pp.
Crum, Shutta. 2004. My Mountain Song [children’s picture book; girl’s summer visit to grandparents in Ky. mountains]. New York: Clarion Books. 24 pp.
Cummings, John Michael. 2008. The Night I Freed John Brown. New York: Philomel Books. 251 pp. Adolescent fiction; Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
Currey, Richard. 1997. Lost Highway [fiction]. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 258 pp.
Currey, Richard. 2005 [1998]. Lost Highway [fiction; W.Va.]. 2nd ed., with a new chapter and an introduction by James Lee Burke. Morgantown: Vandalia Press. 245 pp.
Curtiss, Huston. 2003. Sins of the Seventh Sister [“A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South”; 1929 Elkins, W.Va.]. New York: Harmony Books. 358 pp.
Cushman, Steve. 2004. Portisville: A Novel [N.C., Fla.; mystery]. Charlotte, N.C.: Novello Festival Press. 272 pp.
Daemon, Daun. 2005. “Family Legend and Lullaby Lore: My Gift to John Foster West” [West’s grand-niece]. North Carolina Folklore Journal 52, no. 1 (Spring): 3-7.
Dalporto, T. Paige. 1999. It’s Still a Wonder Just Being Here: Photographs and Poems [Kanawha Valley, W.Va.]. Charlton Heights, W.Va.: New Leaf Books; Chapman Printing Company, Parkersburg. 105 pp.
Dargan, Olive Tilford, with photographs by Bayard Wootten. 1998 [1925, 1941 rev.ed.]. From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks, with an introduction by Anna Shannon Elfenbein, and an afterword by Jonathan Morrow [fiction; story cycle of Great Smoky Mountains social life and customs]. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 336 pp. First published 1925 as Highland Annals, under the pseudonym Fielding Burke.
Davenport, Doris. 1995. Soque Street Poems [North Ga. African-American culture]. Illustrated by Audrey Davenport. Sautee-Nacoochee Ga.: Sautee-Nacoochee Community Association. 67 pp.
Davenport, Doris. 2005. Madness Like Morning Glories [narrative poems, black community portraits, North Ga.]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 58 pp.
Davis, Adda Leah. 2007. Lucinda’s Mountain [fiction; 1950s McDowell Co., W.Va.]. Charleston, W.Va: Mountain State Press. 315 pp.
Davis, Adda Leah. 2008. Jason’s Journey. Charleston, W.Va: Mountain State Press. 332 pp. Fiction; 1950s McDowell Co., W.Va.; sequel to Lucinda’s Mountain (2007); second book in a trilogy.
Davis, Charles. 2006. Angel’s Rest [fiction; 11-year-old’s coming-of-age in 1960s Va.’s Allegheny Mountains]. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Mira. 329 pp.
Davis, Donald. 1996. See Rock City: A Story Journey Through Appalachia. Little Rock: August House. 247 pp.
Davis, Donald. 2000. Ride the Butterflies: Back to School with Donald Davis [five school stories; N.C.]. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 94 pp.
Davis, Donald. 2004. The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday: An Appalachian Folktale [children’s story; “three little pigs” motif with fox]. Illustrated by Jennifer Mazzucco. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 40 pp.
Davis, Donald. 2006. Don’t Kill Santa!: Christmas Stories [N.C.]. Little Rock: August House. 112 pp.
Davis, Ed. 2001. I Was So Much Older Then: A Novel [coming of age, 1960s W.Va.]. Sarasota, Fla.: Disc-Us Books. 243 pp.
Davis, Ed. 2001. I Was So Much Older Then [fiction; 1960s W.Va.]. Sarasota, Fla.: Disc-Us Books, Inc. 243 pp.
Davis, Ed. 2005. The Measure of Everything: A Novel. [Ohio; fight to save family farm]. Austin, Tex.: Plain View Press. 201 pp.
Davis, Hugh. 2008. The Making of James Agee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 318 pp.
Davis, William V. 2002. “Making the World with Words: A Reading of Charles Wright’s ‘Appalachian Book of the Dead’.” In Latitude 63 North: Proceedings of the 8th International Region and Nation Literature Conference, Ostersund, Sweden 2-6 August 2000, ed. David Bell, 255-270. Ostersund: Mid-Sweden University College.
De Castrique, Mark. 2003. Dangerous Undertaking [fiction; mystery series; ex-police officer; N.C.]. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press. 223 pp.
De Castrique, Mark. 2004. Grave Undertaking [fiction; mystery; undertaker; N.C.]. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press. 266 pp.
Deaver, Philip F. 2008. “Writing to the Center: Glory River and Other Works by David Huddle.” Southern Review 44, no. 4 (Autumn): 785-792. Retrospective of Huddle’s poems, essays, and short stories.
DeBerry, Mary Lucille. 2009. Bertha Butcher’s Coat: Poems. Harrisville, W.Va: Sarvis Press. 81 pp. W.Va.; family; farm.
DeFoe, Mark. 1998. Air: Poems. Maryville, Mo.: GreenTower Press. 28 pp.
DeFoe, Mark. 2001. Aviary [poems]. Buckhannon, W.Va.: Pringle Tree Press. 31 pp.
DeFoe, Mark. 2004. Greatest Hits, 1977-2003 [W.Va. poet; 12 poems plus essay]. Greatest Hits Series, no. 227. Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications. 30 pp.
DeFoe, Mark. 2006. The Rock and the Pebble [poems]. Buckhannon, W.Va.: Pringle Tree Press. 31 pp.
DeFoe, Mark. 2008. Weekend Update: Poems. Charlotte, N.C.: Main Street Rag. 44 pp.
DeLancey, Kiki. 2002. Coal Miner’s Holiday: Stories [Ohio River Valley; debut fiction]. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 224 pp.
Denham, Robert D. 2008. “The Sense of an Ending in Michael Chitwood’s Poetry.” The Iron Mountain Review 24 (Spring): 11-17.
Denham, Robert D. 2008. Charles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007 [reader’s guide: 230 poems cited and annotated]. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 252 pp.
Denham, Robert. 2007. “In Memoriam: Daniel G. Leidig (1928-2006)” [Emory & Henry College]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 74.
Denise Giardina Bibliography [21 entries]. 1999. The Iron Mountain Review 15 (Spring): 39.
Denise Giardina Issue. 1999. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 15 (Spring): 1-39.
DePoy, Philip. 2004. The More Shapes Than One Devilin Mystery [Ga.]. New York: St. Martin’s. 260 pp.
DePoy, Phillip. 2004. The Witch’s Grave [fiction; Ga.; folklore/mystery]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 260 pp.
DePoy, Phillip. 2006. A Minister’s Ghost [fiction; Ga.; folklore/mystery]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 277 pp.
DePoy, Phillip. 2007. A Widow’s Curse [fiction; Ga.; folklore/mystery]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 272 pp.
Depta, Victor. 1999. Silence of Blackberries [poems]. Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press. 71 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2000. Gate of Paradise: A Novel [1940s W.Va. coal-mining family]. Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press. 257 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2000. Plays from Blair Mountain: Four Comedies [“Everyone Who Thirsts”; “The Egg of the World”; “A Boat of Light”; “The Rainbow Gave You Birth”]. Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press. 248 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2001. Preparing a Room [poems]. Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press. 87 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2002. Azrael on the Mountain [poems; impact of mountaintop removal mining]. Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press. 80 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2003. Mountains and Clouds: Four Comedies. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 234 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2004. A West Virginia Trilogy: Novels [The Gate of Paradise (2000); Idol and Sanctuary (1993); Feasting with Strife (2004)]. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 475 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2005. The Little Henry Poems. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 78 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2005. The Simultaneous Mountain: Essays on Mysticism and Poetry. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 270 pp.
Depta, Victor. 2007. An Afterthought of Light [poems: infirmities of old age]. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 86 pp.
Deskins, David. 2005. “Effie Waller Smith: An Echo Within the Hills” [1879-1960; African American poet; Pikeville, Ky.]. In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 212-231. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Deutermann, Peter T. 2001. Hunting Season [fiction; political thriller set in rural WV]. New York: St. Martin’s. 352 pp.
Deutermann, Peter T. 2007. Spider Mountain [popular suspense fiction; Great Smoky Mountains; clan, rape, drugs]. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 309 pp.
Deveraux, Jude. 2003. Wild Orchids [mystery set in N.C. mountains]. New York: Atria Books. 341 pp.
Devoto, Pat Cunningham. 2005. The Summer We Got Saved [fiction; 1960s Ala. and Tenn.; Highlander Folk School; race relations; civil rights movement]. New York: Warner Books. 411 pp.
Deweese-Boyd, Ian, and Margaret Deweese-Boyd. 2005. “‘Flying the Flag of Rough Branch’: Rethinking Post-September 11 Patriotism through the Writings of Wendell Berry.” Appalachian Journal 32, no. 2 (Winter): 182-190.
Dewey, Anne Day. 2007. Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 286 pp.
Dickey, James. 2005. The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997 [incl. numerous references to Deliverance, the novel (1970) and screenplay (1972)]. Edited by Gordon Van Ness. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 554 pp.
Dillard, R. H. W. 2004. “Letters from a Distant Lover: The Novels of Fred Chappell.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 6-26. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. This essay was originally published in a 1973 issue of Hollins Critic, with a 2000 postscript.
Dillingham, Nancy. 2003. First Light: Poems. Alexander, N.C.: Worldcomm Publishers. 104 pp.
Disheroon-Green, Suzanne. 2002. “Jayne Anne Phillips.” In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 594-598. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Dockery, Bill. 2000. “Did You’uns Hear That? A Pokeful of Notes on Accent” [dialects; Sevierville, Tenn.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 22-24.
Dockery, William L. 2007. “Letter to the Editor” [Wilma Dykeman funeral (d. Dec. 22, 2006); from Knoxville News-Sentinel writer]. Appalachian Journal 34, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2007/Winter 2008): 4-6.
Don West, Featured Author [1906-1992]. 2008. Special issue, Appalachian Heritage, 36, no. 4 (Fall): 1-61. Includes seven essays, six of Don West’s poems, and 19 of wife Connie West’s paintings displayed full-color. West was founder of the Appalachian Folklife Center in Pipestem, W.Va., and a co-founder, with Myles Horton, of the Highlander Center in Tenn. He was also a labor organizer, folk-music promoter, historian and preacher.
Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. 1995. "Hearing is Believing: Southern Racial Communities and Strategies of Story-Listening in Gloria Naylor and Lee Smith." Twentieth Century Literature 41 (Spring): 16-35.
Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. 1998. “‘Born on the Wrong Side of the Porch’: Violating Traditions in Bastard Out of Carolina” [Dorothy Allison; porch as metaphor and arena between indoor and “out”]. Southern Folklore 55 (no. 2): 133-144.
Dooley, Patrick K. 2000. “Openness to Experience in Stephen Crane’s ‘In the Depths of a Coal Mine’” [1894 Wyoming Co., Pa.]. In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film, ed. W. Thesing, 186-198. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Dougherty, Page. 2002. No One With a Past Is Safe [poems]. Cincinnati, Oh.: Word Press. 91 pp.
Douglas, John. 2008. Murder in Shawnee: Two Mystery Novels of the Alleghenies. Rev. ed. Vancleave, Miss.: Ramble House. 309 pp. Contains two of the author’s previous novels: Shawnee Alley Fire (1987), and Haunts (1990), set in fictionalized Cumberland, Md., during the 1982 recession and 1985 floods, respectively.
Douglass, Thomas, and Denise Giardina. 1999. “Resurrecting the Dead, Recognizing the Human: A Conversation” [interview recorded at the Denise Giardina Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, November 13, 1998]. The Iron Mountain Review 15 (Spring): 31-38.
Douglass, Thomas E. 1994. "Breece Pancake and the Problem with Place: A West Virginia State of Mind." Appalachian Journal 22 (Fall): 60-77.
Douglass, Thomas E. 1996. “A View From Higher Ground: Meredith Sue Willis and the Appalachian Renaissance.” The Iron Mountain Review 12 (Spring): 13-18.
Douglass, Thomas E. 1998. A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D’J Pancake [W.Va. author; d.1979 at age 26]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 280 pp.
Douglass, Thomas E. 2005. “Before the Appalachian Literary Renaissance, There Was Davis Grubb’s The Voices of Glory” [New York: Scribner, 1962; review essay]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 83-91.
Douglass, Thomas E. 2006. Review essay of The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America, by Jeff Biggers (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005). Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 93-98.
Douglass, Thomas E. 2006. “The Scapegoat: Establishing a Genre” [(Random House, 1980); Mary Lee Settle’s Literary Legacy]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 78-82.
Douglass, Thomas E. 2007. “‘...if you write about West Virginia’: The Legacy of Davis Grubb” [1919-1980]. Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 10: 32-36.
Douglass, Thomas. 2008. “Review Essay” [James Agee]. Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 4 (Fall): 92-99. Review essay of three books published by University of Tennessee Press: A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author’s Text (2007), ed. Michael Lofaro; James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other Manuscripts (2005), eds. Michael A. Lofaro and Hugh Davis; and Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and the Works of James Agee (2007), ed. Michael Lofaro.
Drayer, David. 2000. Strip Cuts [debut novel; Pa. coal town]. Los Angeles, Calif.: Rowdy House. 292 pp.
Dresser, Nathanael. 1995. "Cultivating Wilderness: The Place of Land in the Fiction of Ed Abbey and Wendell Berry." Growth and Change 26 (Summer): 350-364.
Dugger, Shepherd M. 2001 [1934]. Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain. Reprint. Banner Elk, N.C.: Pudding Stone Press. Originally published, 1895.
Duke, David C. 2002. Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America [surveys 100 years of coal miner character portrayals]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 275 pp.
Dumas, Bethany K. 1999. “Southern Mountain English: The Language of the Ozarks and Southern Appalachia.” In The Workings of Language: From Prescriptions to Perspectives, ed. R. Wheeler, 67-79. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
Duncan, Julia Nunnally. 2002. Blue Ridge Shadows: Stories [15 short stories; Western N.C.]. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 192 pp.
Duncan, Julia Nunnally. 2005. The Stone Carver [14 short stories; N.C. textile mill town]. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 159 pp.
Duncan, Julia Nunnally. 2005. Drops of the Night: A Novel [N.C. farmer’s wife; “an Appalachian tale of marital disillusionment, illicit desire, and self-redemption”]. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 171 pp.
Duncan, Julia Nunnally. 2007. An Endless Tapestry [poems]. Greensboro, N.C.: March Street Press. 59 pp.
Duncan, Pamela. 2001. Moon Women [debut novel; mothers and daughters; N.C.]. New York: Dell Publishing. 352 pp.
Duncan, Pamela. 2003. Plant Life [textile plant; fiction; stories of three generations of female laborers in N.C.]. New York: Delacorte. 321 pp.
Duncan, Pamela. 2007. The Big Beautiful [fiction; N.C.; runaway bride; Weatherford Award nominee]. New York: Dial Press. 389 pp.
Dunlop, Julie. 2003. “The Poetry of Shuck Beans” [essay; “writing a poem is a lot like preparing shuck beans”]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 61-62.
Dyer, Joyce, ed. 1998. Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers [essays by 35 women; Appalachian Studies Award winner, 1997]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 304 pp. [authors: Sheila Kay Adams, Lisa Alther, Maggie Anderson, Marilou Awiakta, Artie Ann Bates, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Jo Carson, Lou V.P. Crabtree, Doris Diosa Davenport, Hilda Downer, Wilma Dykeman, Sidney Saylor Farr, Nikky Finney, Denise Giardina, Nikki Giovanni, Gail Godwin, Ellesa Clay High, Lisa Koger, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, Llewellyn McKernan, Heather Ross Miller, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Jayne Anne Phillips, Rita Sims Quillen, Jean Ritchie, Bettie Sellers, Mary Lee Settle, Anne Shelby, Betsy Sholl, Bennie Lee Sinclair, Barbara Smith, Lee Smith, Jane Stuart, Meredith Sue Willis].
Dyer, Joyce. 1998. “Dialogue with a Dead Man” [”Brier Eulogy” for Jim Wayne Miller, d. 1996]. Appalachian Journal 26 (Fall): 32-43.
Dyer, Joyce. 1999. Review essay of Addie: A Memoir, by Mary Lee Settle (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998). In Appalachian Journal 26 (Summer): 424-430.
Dyer, Joyce. 2002. “‘Accepting Things Near’: Bibliography of Non-Fiction by Jim Wayne Miller” [lists approx. 160 reviews and essays]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Fall): 64-73.
Dyer, Joyce. 2005. “Confluences: Fluidity in the Art and Vision of Maggie Anderson.” The Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 27-34.
Dyer, Joyce. 2005. “In Memoriam: Mary Lee Settle, 1918-2005.” Appalachian Journal 33, no. 1 (Fall): 4-9.
Dykeman, Wilma. 2002. “Interview with Wilma Dykeman: Connecting, Making Choices” [interview conducted Nov. 30, 2000, Asheville, N.C.]. Appalachian Journal 29 (Summer): 444-458.
Earley, Tony. 1994. Here We Are in Paradise: Stories [eight short stories]. Boston: Little, Brown. 198 pp.
Earley, Tony. 2000. Jim the Boy [first novel; N.C.; 1930s coming-of-age]. Boston: Little, Brown. 227 pp.
Earley, Tony. 2001. Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True [ N.C.; ten “personal essays”]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 172 pp.
Earley, Tony. 2008. The Blue Star: A Novel. Boston: Little Brown. 286 pp. WWII-era N.C.
Easton, Terry. 2000. “Industrialization, Class, and Identity in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven” [1987 novel set in 1890-1923 W.Va and Ky.]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 151-161.
Eckard, Paula Gallant. 2002. Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith [Morrison: The Bluest Eye; Sula; Beloved. Mason: In Country; Spence + Lila; Feather Crowns. Smith: Oral History; Fair and Tender Ladies; Saving Grace]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 227 pp.
Edmunds, J. Spencer. 2004. “Metanarrative and the Story of Life in the Kirkman Tetralogy.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 92-118. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Edwards, Grace Toney. 2002. “Marilou Awiakta: Poet for the People.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 19-34. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Edwards, Grace Toney. 2005. “One Hundred Years of Spirit from Emma Bell Miles.” Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 4 (Fall): 54-57.
Edwards, Kim. 2005. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter [fiction; Ky.; twins separated at birth]. New York: Viking. 401 pp.
Egerton, John. 1996. "James Still: In His World." [Hindman school] Appalachian Heritage 24 (Summer): 6-11.
Egolf, Tristan. 1999. Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt [fiction; Ky.]. New York: Grove Press. 410 pp.
Ehle, John, and Carol Boggess. 2005. “Interview with John Ehle” [b. 1925; Western N.C.]. Appalachian Journal 33, no. 1 (Fall): 32-51.
Ehle, John. 1998 [1967]. The Road [fiction]. Appalachian Echoes. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 416 pp. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row.
Ehle, John. 1999 [1982]. The Winter People [fiction; N.C.]. Reprint. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press. 272 pp.
Ehle, John. 2006 [1964]. The Land Breakers [historical fiction; 18th-century N.C. settlers]. Reprint. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Press 53. 342 pp. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row.
Ehrman, Kit. 2005. Cold Burn [mystery; Va. thoroughbred farm]. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press. 324 pp.
Ellis, Ron. 2001. Cogan’s Woods [fiction; 1960s Ky.; father and son, memoir]. Forward by Rick Bass. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing. 146 pp.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. 2003. “A Writer Everywhere and Nowhere: Recovering Appalachia’s Grace MacGowan Cooke” [1863-1944; The Power and the Glory (1910)]. Journal of Kentucky Studies 20 (September): 140-156.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. 2003. The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature [Emma Bell Miles, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Effie Waller Smith]. Ohio University Press Series in Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press. 207 pp.
Engelhardt, Elizabeth. 2007. “Writing that Old Moonshine Lit: Gender, Power, and Nation in Unexpected Places” [women in moonshine literature: 1870s-1910s; 1880s-1920s; 1910s-1930s]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 13, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 49-74.
Ensign, Robert Taylor. 2003. Lean Down Your Ear upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe’s Greener Modernism [fiction criticism, ecological perspective]. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 156 pp.
Ensor, Allison. 2004. “‘Now, There’s a Story’: The Literature of the Upper Cumberland” [Ky., Tenn.]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 140-158. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Ensor, Allison. 2004. “Establishing a Literary Tradition: Tennessee Literature to 1920” [Gunn, Crockett, Harris, Murfree, Dromgoole, Miles]. In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, eds. C. West and M. Binnicker, 263-278. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Entzminger, Betina. 2007. “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Ed Gentry” [Leslie Fiedler essay, 1948; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and Deliverance (1970)]. Southern Literary Journal 40, no. 1 (Fall): 98-113.
Ernst, Kathleen. 2007. Midnight in Lonesome Hollow: A Kit Mystery [juvenile fiction; 1934 Ky. mountains; American Girl series]. Middleton, Wis.: Pleasant. 178 pp.
Erwin, Casey. 2007. Our Daddy Is A Coal Miner [children’s book; W.Va.; photos digitized into cartoon form]. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse. 15 pp.
Eubanks, Georgann. 2007. “Tapping the Wellspring: Darnell Arnoult’s Writing Laboratory.” [Featured Author–Darnell Arnoult; b. 1955]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 16-20.
Eubanks, Georgann. 2007. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A Guidebook. Photographs by Donna Campbell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 426 pp. Contents: Tour 1. Black Mountain, Montreat, Swannanoa -- Tour 2. Canton, Cold Mountain, Lake Logan, Balsam -- Tour 3. Sylva, Dillsboro, Cullowhee, Highlands -- Tour 4. Franklin, Hayesville, Brasstown, Murphy, Texana -- Tour 5. Robbinsville, Cherohala Skyway, Fontana, Almond, Nantahala Gorge -- Tour 6. Bryson City, Cherokee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Tour 7. Waynesville, Hot Springs, Marshall, Mars Hill -- Tour 8. Weaverville and North Asheville -- Tour 9. Downtown and South Asheville -- Tour 10. Brevard, Rosman, Green River, Zirconia, Flat Rock, Hendersonville -- Tour 11. Burnsville, Micaville, Celo, Mount Mitchell -- Tour 12. Old Fort, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure, Tryon -- Tour 13. Rutherfordton, Spindale, Forest City, Shelby -- Tour 14. Lincolnton, Hickory, Moravian Falls -- Tour 15. Wilkesboro, Happy Valley, Blowing Rock, Linville Falls, Morganton -- Tour 16. Marion, Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine, Penland, Bandana, Kona, Bakersville, Roan Mountain, Banner Elk -- Tour 17. Grandfather Mountain, Crossnore, Valle Crucis, Vilas, Boone -- Tour 18. Todd, West Jefferson, Jefferson, Crumpler, Sparta, Roaring Gap.
Evans-Rose, Sharon. 2007. Erased [mystery; N.C. mountains; memory loss]. Terra Alta, W.Va.: Headline Books.
Evenson, Brian. 2002. “McCarthy’s Wanderers: Nomadology, Violence, and Open Country.” In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 51-59. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Fallon, Katie. 2007. “Goose” [creative writing piece about a mailbox vandalism]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 9-11.
Farr, Sidney Saylor. 2007. “‘I’m Always Writing’” [Featured Author–Albert Stewart]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 3 (Summer): 22-23.
Farr, Sidney Saylor. 2008. “A Conversation with Sidney Saylor Farr” [b. 1932; Ky.]. Interview by Trish Ayers. Appalachian Journal 35, no. 3 (Spring): 218-234. Farr is an author and poet, and editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1984 to 1999.
Farris, Holly. 2007. Lockjaw: Collected Appalachian Stories [storytelling, voices, narratives; Southwest Va.; Weatherford Award nominee]. Arlington, Va.: Gival Press. 172 pp.
Feather, Carl E. 2008. “The Poet of South Jefferson Street.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 4 (Winter): 62-63. Robert Head, Lewisburg Bookstore owner.
Featured Author: Ron Rash [poems, fiction, criticism]. 2002. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Fall): 9-36, 60.
Fedukovich, Casie, with Steve Sparks, eds. 2006. Low Explosions: Writings on the Body [poetry and short stories by 96 contributors]. Knoxville, Tenn.: Knoxville Writers’ Guild. 276 pp.
Felts, John H. 2001. “Lapsed Language of Appalachia” [Cold Mountain (1997)]. Verbatim: The Language Quarterly 26 (Winter): 25-27.
Fiction. 2007. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Fiction section [selected fiction from nine writers, including Ed Davis and Crystal Wilkinson]. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/fiction/index.html.
Field, Liza. 2005. “A Year’s Journey Through the Peripatetic School.” Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 1 (Winter): nonfiction section, 4500 words. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-1/non-fiction/Field.htm.
Finnegan, Brian. 1997. “Road Stories That Stay Home: Car and Driver in Appalachia and The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake.” Southern Literary Journal 29 (Spring): 87-102.
Finney, Nikky. 1997. Heartwood [fiction; four stories; Ky.; Affrilachian writer]. New Books for New Readers. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 70 pp.
Fireside, Bryna J. 2008. Private Joel and the Sewell Mountain Seder. Illustrations by Shawn Costello. Minneapolis, Minn.: Kar-Ben Pub. 47 pp. Children’s story; Civil War; Jewish soldiers and freed slaves have a Passover seder; 1862 (W.)Va.
Fisher, Benjamin F. 2002. “Mary Noailles Murfree” [1850-1922]. In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 187-192. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Fisher, Diane Gilliam. 2003. One of Everything [poems; W.Va., women, illness]. Cleveland Poets Series, no. 54. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 59 pp.
Fisher, Diane Gilliam. 2004. Kettle Bottom [poems; 1920-21 W.Va. coal camp voices]. Florence, Mass.: Perugia Press. 88 pp.
Fisher, Diane. 2007. “‘The Long Way Around’: Space, Place, and Syntax in ‘White Highways’” [poems]. In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 138-140. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Fisher-Wirth, Ann. 2002. “Abjection and ‘the feminine’ in Outer Dark.” In Cormac McCarthy: New Directions, ed. J. Lilly, 125-140. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Flanigan, Beverly Olson. 2001. “Mapping the Ohio Valley: South Midland, Lower North, or Appalachian?” [Linguistic Atlas Project]. American Speech 75 (Winter): 344-347.
Flint, Eric. 2000. 1632 [science fiction; West Virginians time travel to 1632 Germany]. New York: Pocket Books. 504 pp.
Flora, Joseph M. 2002. “Bobbie Ann Mason.” In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 550-558. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Flora, Joseph M., and Lucinda H. Mackethan, eds. 2002. The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs [encyclopedia]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1054 pp.
Flora, Joseph M., and Amber Vogel, eds. 2006. Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary [604 entries, individually authored]. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 468 pp.
Flynn, Nancy. 1997. “Water & Fire” [excerpt from novel-in-progress Eden Undone; Pa. anthracite setting]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 14-17.
Foster, Ruel E. 2007. “Sense of Place in River of Earth” [1940]. In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 64-69. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Sense of Place in Appalachia, ed. S. Mont Whitson, 68-80 Morehead, Ky.: Morehead State University, 1988.
Fowler, Virginia C. 2002. “And This Poem Recognizes That: Embracing Contrarieties in the Poetry of Nikki Giovanni.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 112-135. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Fox, John, Jr. 1996 [1913]. The Heart of the Hills. Foreword by Darlene Wilson. Reprint, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 408 pp.
Francisco, Edward, Robert Vaughan, and Linda Francisco, eds. 2001. The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature [six chronological periods, with upper and lower South examined for each; special section, “Appalachia Recognized”]. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 1386 pp.
Francisco, Edward. 2000. “Christ-Hauntedness in George Scarbrough’s Invitation to Kim” [1989]. The Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 25-30.
Frank, William L. 2000. “The Novels of William Hoffman: One Writer’s Spiritual Odyssey from World War II to the Twenty-First Century.” In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 58-87. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Frank, William L., ed. 2000. The Fictional World of William Hoffman [9 essays; primary and secondary bibliography]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 156 pp.
Frazier, Charles. 1997. Cold Mountain [fiction; Civil War N.C.]. New York: Atlantic Monthly. 368 pp. Weatherford Award winner.
Frazier, Charles. 2006. Thirteen Moons. [fiction; 19th-century-spanning saga and “lifelong search for home;” Great Smoky Mountains; N.C.; Cherokee]. New York: Random House. 422 pp.
Frazier, Tom. 2000. “Coal Mining, Literature, and the Naturalistic Motif” [1906-1993]. In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film, ed. W. Thesing, 199-208. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Fred Chappell [featured author]. 2003. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 14-53.
Frederick, Heather Vogel. 1997. “Cynthia Rylant: A Quiet and Reflective Craft” [PW interview; W.Va. author]. Publishers Weekly 244 (July 21): 178-179.
Freeman, Angela B. 1998. “The Origins and Fortunes of Negativity: The West Virginia Worlds of Kromer, Pancake, and Benedict” [Tom Kromer, Breece D’J Pancake, Pinckney Benedict]. Appalachian Journal 25 (Spring): 244-269.
French, William W. 1998. Maryat Lee’s EcoTheater: A Theater for the Twenty-First Century [W.Va.]. Morgantown, W.Va.: West Virginia University Press. 152 pp.
Freund, Hugo A. 2007. “Silas House’s The Coal Tattoo Permanently Scarring the Landscape, or Trajectories in Tradition: Appalachians, Ancestors, Land Use, Coal Tattoos, and the Broad Form Deed.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 24, (September): 141-156.
Freund, Hugo. 2006. “Ballads, Sisters, and Curses: The Use of Traditional Appalachian Culture in the Novels of Silas House.” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 62, no. 1: 11-19.
Friedman, Michael Shannon. 2006. “An Appreciation of His Literary Work” [Featured Writer–Jeff Mann]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 28-31.
Gainer, Patrick W. 2008. “Speech of the Mountaineers.” In Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians, comp. P. Gainer, 1-18. 2nd ed. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. Dialect and accent; words and expressions.
Gantt, Patricia M. 1997. “‘A Mutual Journey’: Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian Regionalism.” In Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Writing, eds. S. Inness and D. Royer, 197-215. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Gantt, Patricia M. 2002. “A Level Gaze Trained at Life: The Poetry of Lisa Coffman.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 69-81. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Gantt, Patricia M. 2007. “In Memoriam: Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006).” The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 74.
Garin, Marita, ed. 2008. Southern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 20. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 261 pp. 225 poems, biographical statements, notes, photos. Contents: Bob Henry Baber / Joseph Barrett / Kathryn Stripling Byer / Fred Chappell / Mark DeFoe / Charles B. Dickson / Hilda Downer / Gregory Dykes / Marita Garin / Richard Hague / Marc Harshman / Don Johnson / Stephen Knauth / Mary Kratt / P.J. Laska / George Ella Lyon / Jeff Daniel Marion / Michael McFee / Llewellyn McKernan / Irene McKinney / Louise McNeill / Jim Wayne Miller / Robert Morgan / Valerie Nieman / Lee Pennington / Ron Rash / George Scarbrough / Bettie Sellers / Vivian Shipley / Nancy Simpson / R.T. Smith / Bob Snyder / Katherine Soniat / James Still / John Foster West / Charles Wright / Isabel Zuber.
Garrett, George. 2000. “A Life without End: Two Novels About World War II by William Hoffman.” In The Fictional World of William Hoffman, ed. W. L. Frank, 88-97. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Garrett, George. 2006. “‘Is This Heaven?’” [tribute to Mary Lee Settle, d. 2005]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 15.
Garrett, George. 2006. “In Memoriam: Marry Lee Settle (1918-2005).” The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 33.
Garrison, David Lee, and Terry Hermsen, eds. 2003. O Taste and See: Food Poems [100 poets including Maggie Anderson, Cathy Lentes, Wendell Berry, Joyce Sutphen, Larry Smith, and Richard Hague]. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 196 pp.
Geer, Richard Owen, and Debra Jones. 1998. “Gathering Mayhaws: Jo Carson and Writing for Community Performance” [piece written for her Swamp Gravy project]. The Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 24-30.
George Ella Lyon Issue. 1994. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 10 (Summer): 1-32.
George Scarbrough Bibliography [26 entries]. 2000. Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 40.
George Scarbrough Feature. 2000. “A George Addison Scarbrough Chronology [1915-2001], 6; Editor’s Note: “Lusher Materia Medica I Have Not Seen,” 7-11; “The Inflorescence of Variety: An Iconoclastic Southern Poet,” 12-16; “Poems by George Scarbrough” [12 poems], 17-34. The Washington and Lee University Review 50 (Spring): 5-34.
George Scarbrough Issue. 2000. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 1-40.
Giannelli, Adam, ed. 2006. High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright [34 collected essays, 1991-2005]. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College Press. 388 pp.
Giardina, Denise. 2003. Fallam’s Secret [time travel between W.Va. and 1657 England]. New York: W.W. Norton. 331 pp.
Giardina, Denise. 2006. “My Literary Mother” [Mary Lee Settle tribute; W.Va.]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 10.
Gibson, Mike. 2002. “Knoxville Gave Cormac McCarthy the Raw Material of His Art. And He Gave It Back” [The Orchard Keeper (1965); Suttree (1979); Outer Dark (1968)]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 23-34. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Gifford, James M., and Erin R. Kazee. 2008. “Jesse Stuart and Don West.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 4 (Fall): 31-37. Featured Author–Don West.
Gifford, James M., Owen B. Nance, and Patricia A. Hall, comp. and eds. 1997. Appalachian Christmas Stories [collected short stories, essays, and poems]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation.
Gifford, Terry. 2002. “Terrain, Character and Text: Is Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier a Post-Pastoral Novel?” Mississippi Quarterly 55 (Winter 2001-2002): 87-96.
Giles, James Richard. 2006. “Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God” (Random House: 1968 and 1973). Chap. 2 in The Spaces of Violence, 16-41. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.
Giles, James Richard. 2006. “The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina” (Dutton, 1992). Chap. 5 in The Spaces of Violence, 75-93. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.
Giles, Janice Holt. 1994 [1951]. Miss Willie. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 268 pp.
Giles, Janice Holt. 1994 [1951]. Tara's Healing. Reprint, with a foreword by Wade Hall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 253 pp.
Giles, Janice Holt. 2000 [1954]. Hill Man [fiction; Ky.]. Reprint, with a foreword by Wade Hall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 172 pp. Originally published: New York: Pyramid Books, under the pen name John Garth.
Giles, Janice Holt. 2001. Act of Contrition [fiction; written 1957]. First edition. Introduction by Wade Hall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 240 pp.
Giles, Janice Holt. 2002 [1967]. Shady Grove [author’s sixth Ky. novel]. Reprint, with a foreword by Wade Hall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 260 pp.
Giles, Janice Holt. 2003 [1964]. Run Me a River [Civil War; Green River, Ky.]. Reprint, with a foreword by Morris A. Grubbs. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 337 pp.
Glaser, Joe. 2007. “Slick as a Dogwood Hoe Handle: Craft in the Short Stories.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 91-95. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Heritage 11 (Summer 1983): 4-9.
Godden, Richard. 2002. “No End to the Work? Jayne Anne Phillips and the Exquisite Corpse of Southern Labor.” Journal of American Studies 36 (August): 249-279.
Godwin, Gail. 1999. Evensong [fiction; N.C.]. New York: Ballantine Books. 416 pp.
Goldbeck, Christine M. 2000. “Speaking the ‘Speak” [Pa. dialect; anthracite coalfields CoalSpeak; map]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 14-17, 20-21.
Goldbeck, Christine M. 2001. “The Mighty and Enduring Pen of John O’Hara” [1905-1970; fictionalized Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., characters in Pa.’s anthracite region]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Summer): 35-39
Goode, James B. 2002. “The Case for Contextualizing Appalachian Culture Studies Within the Academic Enterprise.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 19 (September): 104-107.
Goode, James B. 2006. “Appalachian Literature.” In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol 9: Literature, ed. M. Inge, 29-34. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Goodrich, Janet. 2001. The Unforeseen Self in the Works of Wendell Berry [analyzed as autobiography; 1957-2000]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 167 pp.
Grammer, John M. 2002. “A Thing Against Which Time Will Not Prevail: Pastoral and History in Cormac McCarthy’s South.” In Cormac McCarthy, ed. H. Bloom, 9-22. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
Grant, Joanna. 2006. “Erskine Caldwell, Hillbilly Celebrity: Retailing Rurality in the
Modernist Marketplace.” In CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 221-236. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Grant, Natalie. 2002. “The Landscape of the Soul: Man and the Natural World in The Orchard Keeper” [1965]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 75-82. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Graves, Jesse. 2007. “Lattice Work: Formal Tendencies in the Poetry of Robert Morgan and Ron Rash.” Southern Quarterly 45, no. 1 (Fall): 78-86.
Gray, Libba Moore; illustrated by Lloyd Bloom. 1999. When Uncle Took the Fiddle [juvenile fiction]. New York: Orchard Books. 32 pp.
Gray, Richard. 2006. “A Southern Writer and Class War in the Mountains: Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread” [(1932); textile strike in 1929 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C.]. In Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939, eds. R. Godden and M. Crawford, 179-191. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Greear, Mildred White. 2003. “An Unlikely Friendship” [Byron Herbert Reece]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 68-72.
Green, Chris, ed. 2006. Coal: A Poetry Anthology [100 poets, with profiles; selective bibliography of books, films, and web sites about coal]. Preface by Denise Giardina; afterword by Jack Spadaro. Ashland, Ky.: Blair Mountain Press. 310 pp.
Green, Chris. 2002. “Working Truth Inside and Out: Don West, Muriel Rukeyser, Poetry, and the Popular Front in Appalachia, 1932-1948.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Fall): 382-406.
Green, Chris. 2007. “Headwaters: The Early Poetics of James Still, Don West, and Jesse Stuart.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 21-39. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Green, Chris. 2008. “Truth, Poetry, and Don West.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 4 (Fall): 51-59. Featured Author; analysis of West’s poem “Prayer” published in Clods of Southern Earth (1946).
Green, Connie Jordan. 2003 [1989]. The War at Home [youth novel; growing up in WWII Oak Ridge, Tenn.]. Reprint. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Tellico Books. 138 pp. Originally published: New York: McElderry Books.
Green, Connie Jordan. 2007. Slow Children Playing: Poems. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 29 pp.
Green, Connie. 2000. “Mirrored Through Metaphor: Family in George Scarbrough’s Poetry.” The Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 20-24.
Green, Jordan. 1997. “Writing with Class: An Interview with Denise Giardina” [W.Va. novelist]. Southern Exposure 25 (Fall/Winter): 40-43.
Greene, Ben. 1998. “Jeff Daniel Marion: Asking the Questions Well” [appreciation of Marion’s pedagogy by a former student]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 25.
Greene, Jonathan. 2005. “The Persistence of Folly: 40 Years of Gnomon Press, An Interview with Jonathan Greene” [editor; founded 1965; Frankfort, Ky.]. Appalachian Journal 32, no. 4 (Summer): 442-457.
Griffin, Brian. 1997. Sparkman in the Sky & Other Stories [winner, 1996 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction]. Louisville: Sarabande Books. 161 pp.
Groce, Barbara S. 2007. Appalachian Girl [poems; girlhood memories]. Roswell, Ga.: B. Groce. 41 pp.
Grover, Kathleen H. 2004. “Appalachia in Lisa Alther’s Novels.” Appalachian Heritage 32 (Winter): 23-26.
Grubb, Davis. 2001 [1969]. Fools’ Parade [fiction; W.Va.]. Appalachian Echoes. Reprint, with a foreword by Thomas E. Douglass. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 306 pp. Originally published: New York: World Pub. Co.
Grubbs, Morris Allen, ed. 2001. Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories [40 stories]. Introduction by Wade Hall; afterword by Charles E. May. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 400 pp. Contents: Blackberry winter (1946) / Robert Penn Warren -- The petrified woman (1947) / Caroline Gordon -- The nest (1948) / James Still -- The men (1948) / Jane Mayhall -- Evenings at home (1948) / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Anthem of the locusts (1949) / Dean Cadle -- Lost land of youth (1950) / Jesse Stuart -- Fur in the hickory (1953) / Billy C. Clark -- The gift (1957) / Janice Holt Giles -- The Fourth at Getup (1960) / A.B. Guthrie Jr. -- The vireo’s nest (1960) / Hollis Summers -- The little-known bird of the inner eye (1961) / Ed McClanahan -- Bare bones (1965) / Sallie Bingham -- White Anglo-Saxon protestant (1967) / Robert Hazel -- Play like I’m sheriff (1968) / Jack Cady -- The taste of ironwater (1969) / Jim Wayne Miller -- The world’s one breathing (1970) / David Madden -- White rat (1975) / Gayl Jones -- The affair with Rachel Ware (1976) / Jane Stuart -- Maxine (1977) / Gurney Norman -- Rent control (1979) / Walter Tevis -- Residents and transients (1982) / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Yours (1982) / Joe Ashby Porter -- A fellow making himself up (1982) / Leon V. Driskell -- Winter facts (1983) / Mary Ann Taylor-Hall -- The fugitive (1984) / Richard Cortez Day -- The perfecting of the Chopin valse no. 14 in e minor (1985) / Sena Jeter Naslund -- Diary of a Union solder (1985) / Pat Carr -- That distant land (1986) / Wendell Berry -- If you can’t win (1986) / James Baker Hall -- Bypass (1987) / Lisa Koger -- Homeland (1989) / Barbara Kingsolver -- Dr. Livingston’s grotto (1989) / Normandi Ellis -- Belinda’s world tour (1993) / Guy Davenport -- The way it felt to be falling (1993) / Kim Edwards -- The idea of it (1995) / Chris Holbrook -- Clouds (1996) / Paul Griner -- Barred owl (1996) / Chris Offutt -- Deferment (1998) / Dwight Allen -- Humming back yesterday (1999) / Crystal E. Wilkinson.
Gurney Norman Issue. 1997. Special issue, The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 1-39.
Hadaway, Elizabeth. 2006. Fire Baton: Poems. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 82 pp.
Hague, Richard. 2003. Alive in Hard Country: Poems [industrial Ohio Valley]. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 96 pp.
Hahn, Mary Downing. 2003. Hear the Wind Blow [adolescent fiction; Civil War Shenandoah Valley, Va.]. New York: Clarion Books. 212 pp.
Haigh, Jennifer. 2005. Baker Towers [fiction; post-WWII, Pa. coal company town; Polish-Italian family saga]. New York: William Morrow. 334 pp.
Hairston, Alena. 2007. The Logan Topographies: Poems [African American mining community; Logan Co., W.Va.; voices of mothers, daughters, lovers]. New York: Persea Books. 57 pp.
Hall, Francie, and Kent Oehm, illustrator. 1998. Appalachian ABCs [children’s primer]. Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press. 54 pp.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. 2003. “Women Writers, the ‘Southern Front,’ and the Dialectical Imagination” [Grace Lumpkin; To Make My Bread (1929); Gastonia textile strike]. The Journal of Southern History 69 (February): 3-38.
Hall, James Baker. 1999. The Mother on the Other Side of the World: Poems. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 70 pp.
Hall, James Baker. 2004. The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. 270 pp.
Hall, James Baker. 2005. “Gurney Norman, Kentucky Coal Field Orphan, Is Gurney Stronger Than History, or What?” [narrative poem]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 16-17. Reprinted from the author’s 2004 collection, The Total Light Process: New and Selected Poems (University Press of Kentucky).
Hall, James W. 2005. Forests of the Night [fiction; policewoman suspense; Great Smokies]. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur. 341 pp.
Hall, Wade, and Rick Wallach, eds. 2002. Sacred Violence, Vol. I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works; Vol. II: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels [b. 1933; Knoxville, Tenn.]. El Paso: Texas Western Press.; 2002.
Hall, Wade H., ed. 2005. The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State [includes many Appalachian writers]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 880 pp.
Hall, Wade. 2002. “The Human Comedy of Cormac McCarthy.” In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 61-73. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Hall, Wade. 2002. “The Human Comedy of Cormac McCarthy.” In Cormac McCarthy, ed. H. Bloom, 53-64. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
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Hamner, Earl. 2007. “A Dogwood Memory” [Featured Author–Memoir; Schuyler, Va.]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 2 (Spring): 22-24.
Hamner, Earl. 2007. “Tom, Sam, Mabel and Me: A Personal Journey” [Featured Author–Thomas Wolfe]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 27-30.
Hancock, Joyce A. 2007. “Creative Energy in ‘Mrs. Razor’” [short story]. In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 107-114. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Heritage 8 (1980): 38-46.
Hankla, Cathryn. 1997. Negative History [poems]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 58 pp.
Hankla, Cathryn. 2000. Texas School Book Depository: Prose Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 53 pp.
Hankla, Cathryn. 2002. Poems for the Pardoned. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 56 pp.
Hankla, Cathryn. 2003. The Land Between [novel; “Murder Hole” cave, Va.; Calif.]. Fort Worth, Tex.: Baskerville Publishers. 261 pp.
Hankla, Cathryn. 2004. Last Exposures: A Sequence of Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 55 pp.
Hanlon, Tina L. 2007. “‘Read my tales, spin my rhymes’: The Books for Children.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 174-189. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Hansel, Pauletta. 2001. Divining [poems by co-founder of the 1970s Soupbean Poets who helped establish the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative]. Boulder, Colo.: WovenWord Press. 70 pp.
Hardesty, David C., Jr. 2006. “Reflections on My Friend Sue” [Featured Author–Meredith Sue Willis; the author is president of West Virginia University and grew up with Willis in Shinnston, W.Va.]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 29-31.
Harington, Donald. 1994. “Donald Harington.” Interview by Edwin T. Arnold. Appalachian Journal 21 (Summer): 432-445.
Harington, Donald. 2002. “An Interview with Donald Harington” [Ozark novelist]. Interview by Larry Vonalt. Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 69-85.
Harington, Donald. 2002. Thirteen Albatrosses (or, Falling off the Mountain): A Novel [Ozarks]. New York: Henry Holt. 402 pp.
Harington, Donald. 2004. With [fiction; Ozarks; girl’s survival story]. London, England: Toby Press. 491 pp.
Harington, Donald. 2005. The Pitcher Shower [“picture show”; fiction; Ozarks picaresque; and Shakespeare]. New Milford, Conn.: Toby Press. 202 pp.
Harkins, Gillian. 2007. “Surviving the Family Romance? Southern Realism and the Labor of Incest” [Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison, 1992]. Southern Literary Journal 40, no. 1 (Fall): 114-139.
Harris, Corra, and Grace Toney Edwards. 1998. The Circuit Rider’s Wife [fiction; Ga.]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 344 pp.
Harshbarger, Dwight. 2005. In the Heart of the Hills: A Novel in Stories [1940s-50s Cabell Co., W.Va., coming-of-age]. Groton, Mass.: Martin and Lawrence Press. 303 pp.
Hart, Beth Webb. 2006. Adelaide Piper [Christian fiction; Va. college student; violence, tragedy, recovery]. Nashville, Tenn.: WestBow Press. 325 pp.
Harvey, Steven. 2006. “Kindly Dark.” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 8, no. 1 (Fall): 17-20. Meditation on this mountain phrase.
Hatfield, Sharon. 2008. “‘In Love with Words’: An Interview with Sharon Hatfield” [teacher, author, and Lee Co., Va. native]. By Whitney Kimball Coe, Jennifer Cohen-Jordan, Amanda T. Hedrick, Emily Schaad, and Anna Rachel Terman, with Patricia D. Beaver. Appalachian Journal 35, no. 4 (Summer): 318-332, including a list of books and articles published by Hatfield.
Hawkins, Bill. 2005. Prickett’s Fort [fiction; frontier and pioneer life in 1770s northern (W.)Va.]. Chapmanville, W.Va: Woodland Press. 240 pp.
Hawkins, Nyoka, comp. 1997. “A Gurney Norman Bibliography” [69 entries; primary and secondary]. The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 37-39.
Hays, Tommy. 2005. The Pleasure Was Mine [fiction; Alzheimer’s disease; widower; S.C.]. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 255 pp.
Hazen, Kirk, and Ellen Fluharty. 2004. “Defining Appalachian English.” In Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology, ed. M. Bender, 50-65. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 37. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Hazen, Kirk, and Ellen Fluharty. 2001. “Defining Appalachian English.” American Language Review 5 (May-June): 32-33.
Hazen, Kirk, and Sarah Hamilton. 2008. “A Dialect Turned Inside Out: Migration and the Appalachian Diaspora” [W.Va., Oh., Mich.]. Journal of English Linguistics 36, no. 2 (June): 105-128.
Hazen, Kirk. 2006. “The Final Days of Appalachian Heritage Language.” In Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English, eds. T. Murray and B. Simon, 129-150. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins.
Hazen, Kirk. 2008. “(ING): A Vernacular Baseline for English in Appalachia.” American Speech 83, no. 2 (Summer): 116-140. Sociogeographic, Southern-Northern divide; 67 W.Va. speakers.
Headley, Jason. 2004. Small Town Odds [debut novel; set in W.Va.]. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 341 pp.
Heddendorf, David. 2008. “Wendell Berry’s Living Room.” Sewanee Review 116, no. 2 (Spring): 282-289. Berry’s Kentucky River cabin and characters; A Place on Earth (1967), and “The Long-Legged House” (1969).
Hedrick, Helen Groves. 2002. Rattlesnake Riddle: A Dolly Sods W.Va. Adventure [juvenile fiction; field trip to Allegheny Highlands plateau, Dolly Sods, W.Va.]. Illustrations by Sara Miller. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Company. 44 pp.
Heffernan, Tim. 2004. “Transcripts of a Troubled Mind.” The Atlantic, 29 April: online. Breece D’J Pancake (1952-1979), W.Va. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200404u/pancake.
Hendricks, Randy, and James A. Perkins, eds. 2006. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 177 pp.
Hendricks, Randy. 2003. The Twelfth Year and Other Times: Stories [Monroe Co., Tenn. settings]. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. 152 pp.
Hendrickson, Robert. 1997. Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks. Facts on File Dictionary of American Regional Expressions, vol. 4, New York: Facts on File. 147 pp.
Henninger, Katherine. 2007. “Envisioning ‘White Trash’: Excess and Access in Appalachia” [Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison, 1992]. Chap. 4 in Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing, 136-155. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Hensley, Judith Victoria. 2008. Terrible Tina. Cold Iron, Ky.: Ascended Ideas. 132 pp. Juvenile fiction; Sang Branch Elementary School, first-year teacher, fifth grade.
Henson, Heather. 2002. Making the Run: A Novel [Ky.; coming-of-age; fathers and daughters]. New York: Joanna Cotler Books. 227 pp.
Henson, Heather. 2005. Angel Coming [children’s book; mountain preparations for a new baby; early 20th-century Ky.; Frontier Nursing Service (“angels on horseback”]. Illustrated by Susan Gaber. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 40 pp.
Henson, Michael. 2006. Crow Call: Poems [ode to Buddy Gray, Over-the Rhine activist for the poor and homeless, 1973-1996]. Albuquerque, N.M.: West End Press. 88 pp.
Hermes, Patricia. 2002. Sweet By and By [juvenile fiction: WWII-era Tenn. mountains; grandmother; death]. New York: HarperCollins. 192 pp.
Herrin, Roberta. 1996. "Gloria Houston and the Burden of the 'Old Culture'." [children's books] Appalachian Journal 24 (Fall): 30-42.
Herrin, Roberta. 1998. “All That Is Native and Fun: Jo Carson’s Children’s Books.” The Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 19-23.
Herrin, Roberta. 2007. “Digging Is an Act of Faith” [...with a pen, regionally, in search of understanding...]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 2-3.
Herrin, Roberta. 2007. Review essay of The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, by Anne Shelby (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 74.
Herring, Gina. 1998. “Politics and Men: What’s ‘Really Important’ About Meredith Sue Willis and Blair Ellen Morgan” [Higher Ground (1981); Only Great Changes (1985, rpt. 1997); Trespassers (1997)]. Appalachian Journal 25 (Summer): 414-422.
Herring, Gina. 1999. “Sentimental Journey: Janice Holt Giles Finds a Career But No Immortality in Appalachia” [review essay of Janice Holt Giles: A Writer’s Life, by Dianne Watkins Stuart (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998)]. Appalachian Journal 26 (Spring): 274-282.
Herring, Gina. 2000. “Climbing Paradox Mountain: The Stories of Robert Morgan” [review essay of The Balm of Gilead Tree: New and Selected Stories, by Robert Morgan (Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon Press, 1999)]. Appalachian Journal 27 (Spring): 260-271.
Herring, Gina. 2001. “The Feminine Mystique and Elizabeth Madox Roberts” [review essay of Roberts’ novel The Time of Man (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000 [1926]). Appalachian Journal 28 (Winter): 188-203.
Herring, Gina. 2002. “‘Approaching the Alter’: Aesthetic Homecoming in the Poetry of Linda Marion and Lynn Powell.” Appalachian Heritage 30 (Spring): 20-30.
Herring, Gina. 2007. “‘Fox fire in my head, but soggy wood on paper’: Harriette Simpson Arnow’s Experiments in the Short Story.” Mississippi Quarterly 60, no. 2 (Spring): 421-425. Review essay of The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow, eds. S. Ballard and H. Chung (Michigan State University Press, 2005).
Hickam, Homer. 2007. Red Helmet [romance/mystery; W.Va. coal town; N.Y.C.]. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson. 341 pp.
Hicks, A. Jane. 2002. “Felix Culpa” [prize-winning poem, with author profile by Jane Harris Woodside]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Summer): 3-4.
Hicks, Jane. 2004. “How I Became the Voice in the Headset or a Writer’s Crew Chief” [Sharyn McCrumb; St. Dale (New York: Kensington Press, 2005)]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Fall): 24-26.
Hicks, Jane. 2005. Blood and Bone Remember: Poems from Appalachia [26 poems]. Introduction by Silas House. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 78 pp.
Hicks, Jane. 2007. “Hindman’s Appeal” [Appalachian Writers Workshop, Hindman Settlement School, Ky.]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 3 (Summer): 46-49.
Higgins, Anna Dunlap. 2003. “‘To Walk These Hills’: Poetic Inspiration for Appalachian Poet Hilda Downer.” North Carolina Literary Review 12: 174-183.
Higgins, Anna Dunlap. 2004. “‘Anything but Surrender’: Preserving Southern Appalachia in the Works of Ron Rash.” North Carolina Literary Review 13: 49-58.
Higgs, Robert J. 1997. “‘Are You Quality, Or Do You Stack?”: Appalachia and the Future of Southern Letters.” Appalachian Journal 25 (Fall): 62-83.
Higgs, Robert J. 1998. “‘Where’s Love?’: The Overheard Quest in the Stories of Jo Carson.” The Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 9-18.
Higgs, Robert J. 2004. “Modern Appalachian Writers” [sidebar in Chap. 17, “Tennessee Fiction since 1920”]. In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, eds. C. West and M. Binnicker, 307-308. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
High, Ellisa Clay. 2002. “Maggie Anderson: Two Languages.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 3-9. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hill, Reinhold L. 2000. “‘These Stories Are Not ‘Real,’ But They Are As True As I Can Make Them’: Lee Smith’s Literary Ethnography.” Southern Folklore 57 (no. 2): 106-118.
Hillchild: A Folklore Chapbook About, for, and by West Virginia Children. Vol. 1, 2002. Edited by Noel W. Tenney and Judy P. Byers. Fairmont: West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State College.
Hodges, Mary Bozeman. 1999. Tough Customers and Other Stories: Tales from Tennessee & Southern Appalachia [fiction; Tenn.]. Introduction by Gurney Norman. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 158 pp.
Hodges, Mary Bozeman. 2003. Plastic Santa, and Other Stories [eight humorous stories]. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Tellico Books. 71 pp.
Hoffman, William. 1998. Tidewater Blood: A Novel [W.Va.]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books. 300 pp.
Hoffman, William. 2000. Blood and Guile [crime mystery; W.Va.]. New York: HarperCollins. 239 pp.
Hoffman, William. 2002. “William Hoffman’s Fictional Journey: An Interview.” By Casey Clabough. Southern Quarterly 41 (Fall): 80-86.
Hoffman, William. 2002. Wild Thorn [mystery; “Shawnee Co.,” W.Va.; mountain woman]. New York: HarperCollins. 293 pp.
Hokenson, Jan Walsh. 2001. “Fool’s Wisdom: The Learning of Laughter” [the comic in novelist Lisa Alther’s work]. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 21-27.
Holbrook, Chris. 1995. Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia. Frankfort, Ky: Gnomon Press.
Holland-Toll, Linda J. 2006. “Bridges Over and Bedrock Beneath: The Role of Ballads in Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Novels.” Journal of American Culture 29, no. 3 (September): 337-344.
Holliday, Shawn. 2001. Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism. American University Studies, Series 24; American Literature, vol. 73. New York: Peter Lang. 156 pp.
Holliday, Shawn. 2006. Review essay of A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright [poet; 1927-1980], (eds. A. Wright and S. Maley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 2 (Spring): 94-96.
Holliday, Shawn. 2007. “A Thomas Wolfe Bibliography: Suggested Secondary Sources” [eight book titles; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 44-45.
Holliday, Shawn. 2007. “A Thomas Wolfe Annotated Bibliography” [Featured Author; 12 primary works]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 22-24.
Holliday, Shawn. 2007. “Introduction to the Three Story Fragments of Thomas Wolfe” [housed at Harvard University’s Houghton Library; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 9-10. Unpublished manuscripts: “The Mountaineers Learning Marksmanship,” 11-12; “The Haunted Grove,” 25-26; “A Recollection,” 32-35.
Holloway, Kimberley M. 2003. “Mythical Mountains: The Mythology of Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Series.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 111-121. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Holloway, Kimberley M. 2003. “Introduction: From a Race of Storytellers.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 1-6. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Holloway, Kimberley M. 2003. “The Past as Present: Ghosts of the Past in Sharyn McCrumb’s Ghost Riders” [2003]. In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 179-184. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Holloway, Kimberley M. 2006. “Keeping the Legends: Celtic Mythology in the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb.” The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 7-14.
Holloway, Kimberley M., ed. 2003. From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb [16 articles and essays]. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. 200 pp.
Holt, Stephen M. 2000. Late Mowing: Poems and Essays [Ky.]. Introduction by Kathryn Stripling Byer. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 96 pp.
Hopkins, Lila. 2002. Weave Me a Song: A Novel: A Chronicle of Family Devotion, A Story of Love, Betrayal, Forgiveness and Reunion [N.C.]. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 229 pp.
Hopkins, Lila. 2008. The Master Craftsman: Heartwarming Novel of Father-Son Relationships and the Incredible Gifts of Love. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 184 pp. Three generations; N.C.; kidney transplant.
Hopkins, Shawna Lee. 2002. Rooster Creek Girl Runs Away [fiction; Ky.; 14-year-old]. Chicago: Adams Press. 63 pp.
Horn, Tammy. 2001. “Honey Breeding: An Appalachian Aristaeus in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies” [1988]. Journal of Kentucky Studies 18 (September): 106-110.
Horn, Tammy. 2002. “Re-Examining the Negative Appalachian Stereotypes in the Southern Highlands: Evelyn Scott’s Witch Perkins: A Story of the Kentucky Hills [New York: Holt, 1929]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Summer): 35-40.
Horne, Jennifer, ed. 2003. Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets [100 agrarian poems]. Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books. 208 pp. [poets include Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Wendell Berry, Jesse Stuart, James Still, R. T. Smith, George Scarbrough, Wade Hall, Nikki Giovanni].
Horton, Matthew R. 2002. “‘Hallucinated Recollections’: Narrative as Spatialized Perception of History in The Orchard Keeper.” In Cormac McCarthy: New Directions, ed. J. Lilly, 285-312. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Houchin, Ron. 1997. Death and the River [poems]. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland: Salmon Poetry. 79 pp.
Houchin, Ron. 2002. Moveable Darkness [poetry]. Salmon Poetry. County Clare, Ireland: Salmon Publishing. 66 pp.
Houchin, Ron. 2004. Among Wordless Things: Poems. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 91 pp.
Houchin, Ron. 2008. Birds in the Tops of Winter Trees [poems]. Foreword by Marianne Worthington. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 74 pp.
House, Silas. 2001. “Family Pieces: Interview with Silas House” [author of Clay’s Quilt (2001)]. By Marianne Worthington. Appalachian Heritage 29 (Fall): 15-20.
House, Silas. 2001. Clay’s Quilt: A Novel [Ky.]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 292 pp.
House, Silas. 2002. “Making Himself Heard” [praise for Ron Rash]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Fall): 11-14.
House, Silas. 2002. “The Hand That Wrote The Dollmaker: A Tribute to Harriette Arnow” [1908-1986]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Winter): 8-10.
House, Silas. 2002. “What I Don’t Know -- and Do” [using fiction to recreate a lost past; excerpt from A Parchment of Leaves (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002)]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Summer): 35-38.
House, Silas. 2002. A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel [1917 Ky.]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 275 pp.
House, Silas. 2003. “A Conversation with Writer Silas House” [author of Clay’s Quilt (2001) and A Parchment of Leaves (2002)]. Interview by Janna McMahan. Appalachian Journal 31 (Fall): 96-107.
House, Silas. 2003. “A Day with Lee Smith” [interview; profile]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Winter): 16-23.
House, Silas. 2004. “A Matter of Life and Death: Old and New Appalachia Meet in One Foot in Eden” [2002 novel by Ron Rash: Charlotte: Novello Press, 2002]. The Iron Mountain Review 20 (Spring): 21-25.
House, Silas. 2004. The Coal Tattoo: A Novel [1960s Ky.; prequel to Clay’s Quilt (2001); Kentucky Literary Award winner for fiction]. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 336 pp.
House, Silas. 2007. “A Role Model Worth Having.” [Featured Author–Earl Hamner]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 2 (Spring): 43-45. Essay originally appeared as the introduction to Earl Hamner: From Walton’s Mountain to Tomorrow (2005), by James Person.
House, Silas. 2008. The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play. Louisville, Ky.: MotesBooks. 119 pp. Three-act drama, plus story it is based on; Appalachian dialect; family vignettes.
House, Teresa Ann Gabbard. 2004. “Stick-Shifts, Bluegills and Dancing” [about her husband, novelist Silas House; see also appended brief “Featured Author” pieces in this issue: “Fascinated by the World,” by Terry Dean Hoskins (Silas’s cousin); “Born to Write,” by Sandra Stidham (Silas’s seventh-grade English teacher); and “Living the Creed,” by Brooke Calton (Silas’s writing student)]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Spring): 16-22.
Houston, Gloria. 1997 [1992]. My Great-Aunt Arizona [N.C.; children’s literature; biography,1876-1969]. New York: Demco Media. (Previously published: New York: HarperCollins)
Houston, Gloria. 2008 [1990]. Littlejim. Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. Reprint. Fairview, N.C.: Bright Mountain Books. 172 pp. Originally published: New York: Philomel Books. Children’s fiction, N.C. mountains; 12-year-old; WWI-era.
Hovis, George. 2000. “‘When You Got True Dirt You Got Everything You Need’: Forging an Appalachian Arcadia in Fred Chappell’s Midquest” [1981 epic poem cycle]. Mississippi Quarterly 53 (Summer): 389-414.
Hovis, George. 2004. “Darker Vices and Nearly Incomprehensible Sins: The Fate of Poe in Fred Chappell’s Early Novels.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 28-50. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Hovis, George. 2006. “Assuming the Mantle of Storyteller: Fred Chappell and Frontier Humor.” In The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor, ed. E. Piacentino, 156-173. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Hovis, George. 2007. “In Praise of ‘Forward-Looking Men’: Thomas Wolfe’s Rejection of Pastoral in ‘The Hills Beyond’” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 47-57.
Hovis, George. 2007. Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 325 pp. Contents: Introduction: Plain Folk and the Yeoman Ideal in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction -- Doris Betts: Plain Folk in Mill Town -- Reynolds Price: Plain Folk in the Tobacco Belt -- Fred Chappell’s Prison/Arcadia: Plain Folk in Appalachia -- Lee Smith: The Yeoman’s Wife -- Clyde Edgerton: The Embattled Yeoman -- Randall Kenan: The Black Yeoman -- Conclusion: The Yeoman’s Legacy.
Howard, Elizabeth. 2005. Gleaners [poetry; East Tenn.]. Cordova, Tenn.: Grandmother Earth. 76 pp.
Howard, Jennifer. 1995. “Interview With Mary Lee Settle” [special issue: Southern Novelists on Stage and Screen]. Southern Quarterly 33 (Winter-Spring): 79-83.
Howard, Jennifer. 1996. "Fred Chappell: From the Mountains to the Mainstream." [PW Interview] Publishers Weekly 243 (Sept. 30): 55-56.
Howard, Julie Kate. 2002. “In Her Own Image: Characterizing Theology in Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Poetry.” The Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 24-29.
Huddle, David. 1996. “David Huddle.” Interview by Tal Stanley. Appalachian Journal 23 (Winter): 174-187.
Huddle, David. 1999. Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems [Va.]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 172 pp.
Huddle, David. 1999. The Story of a Million Years [first novel; Va.]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 189 pp.
Huddle, David. 2004. Grayscale: Poems [29 poems; Blue Ridge; author’s fifth collection]. Southern Messenger Poets. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 56 pp.
Huddle, David. 2008. Glory River: Poems. Southern Messenger Poets. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 66 pp.
Hudson, Charles M. 2003. Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa [historical fiction; 1559 exchanges between Spaniards and ancient natives of Ala., Ga., N.C.]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 222 pp.
Hudspeth, Dory L. 2008. I’ll Fly Away: Poems. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 29 pp.
Hughes, Linda K. 2002. “Harington’s Highlanders: Donald Harington’s Ozarks and the Mapping of Cultures.” Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 39-50.
Humez, Nick. 2002. “Uncle Fud” [use of kinship terms; ballads, poetry]. Verbatim: The Language Quarterly 27 (Summer): 23-27.
Huntley, Reid D. 1997. “Thomas Wolfe as a Middle Class Appalachian Writer.” Pembroke Magazine 29: 92-96.
Hyman, Eric. 2006. “The All of You-All.” American Speech 81, no. 3 (Fall): 325-331.
Idol, John L., Jr. 2000. “Thomas Wolfe Gets Over Himself” [literary biography]. Appalachian Journal 27 (Summer): 344-353.
Idol, John L., Jr. 2007. “Thomas Wolfe: A Biographical Sketch” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 13-20.
In Their Own Country: Fourteen Entertaining Visits with Fourteen of West Virginia’s Most Celebrated Writers [14 sound discs, each containing an hour-long interview with/about one of the following writers: Irene McKinney, Denise Giardina, Richard Currey, Cynthia Rylant, Keith Maillard, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sandra Belton, Pinckney Benedict, Breece D'J Pancake, Maggie Anderson, Stephen Coonts, Marc Harshman, Davis Grubb, Mary Lee Settle]. 2003. Produced and hosted by Kate Long. Charleston: West Virginia Library Commission.
Inge, M. Thomas, ed. 2006. Literature [31 essays; 224 author profiles]. Vol. 9 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 511 pp.
Inge, M. Thomas. 2008. “Searching for Sut: Solving the Mystery of George Washington Harris’s Gravesite.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 65-67. Humorist; Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn.
Inman, Robert. 2006. The Christmas Bus [children’s fiction; orphanage]. Illustrations by Lyle Baskin. Charlotte, N.C.: Novello Festival Press. 77 pp.
Inscoe, John C. 1998. “Appalachian Odysseus: Love, War, and Best-Sellerdom in the Blue Ridge” [review essay of Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997]. Appalachian Journal 25 (Spring): 330-337.
Isabel Zuber, 1932– [author of new novel Salt; bio-bibliographical guide]. 2004. Contemporary Authors 222: 452-454.
Ivie, Doris, and Leslie M. LaChance, eds. 2001. Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology [Knoxville Writers’ Guild; 83 authors; poetry, short stories, essays, non-fiction]. Knoxville, Tenn.: Celtic Cat Publishing. 318 pp.
Jackson, Dot. 2006. Refuge: A Novel. Charlotte, N.C.: Novello Festival Press. 346 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry. 1929 setting; “A Charlestonian woman escapes her husband and returns to her family’s abandoned homestead in the Appalachian mountains.”
Jackson, Joe. 2004. How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things: A Novel [1960s picaresque; 16-year-old Dahlia’s coming of age]. New York: Carroll & Graf. 357 pp.
Jacobsen, Karen J. 2007. “Another Reappraisal: The Cultural Work of Mary Noailles Murfree’s In the Tennessee Mountains” [(1884); question of stereotyped characters]. Appalachian Journal 35, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2007-Winter 2008): 90-107.
James B. Goode [featured contemporary author]. 2003. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 6-30.
Jared, Wanda. 2003. “Nora Bonesteel in the Novels of Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Series.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 137-144. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Jarrett, Robert L. 1997. Cormac McCarthy. Twayne’s United States Authors Series; TUSAS 679, New York: Twayne Publishers. 175 pp.
Jeff Daniel Marion Issue. 1995. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 11 (Spring): 1-40.
Jeff Daniel Marion [featured contemporary author]. 2003. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Fall): 16-45.
Jenks, Philip. 2002. On the Cave You Live In [poems; W.Va., Ky.]. Chicago: Flood Editions. 50 pp.
Jennings, Rachel. 2003. “Celtic Women and White Guilt: Frankie Silver and Chipita Rodriguez in Folk Memory” [Sharyn McCrumb, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, New York: Dutton, 1998]. Melus 28 (Spring): 17-37.
Jennings, Rachel. 2008. Elijah’s Farm. San Antonio, Tex.: Pecan Grove Press. 66 pp. Poems: Spanish-Texas/Appalachian.
Jentsch, Nancy K., and Danny L. Miller. 2003. “A Song to Sing: Women in Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Series.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 93-110. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Jentsch, Nancy K., and Danny L. Miller. 2005. “Lighting the Fuse: Wilma Dykeman and Sharyn McCrumb as Appalachian ‘Activists’.” In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 75-94. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Jo Carson Bibliography [30 entries: books, plays, essays and interviews]. 1998. The Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 38-39.
Jo Carson Issue. 1998. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 14 (Summer): 1-39.
Johnson, Fenton. 1995. “Fenton Johnson.” Interview by Anna Creadick. Appalachian Journal 22 (Winter): 160-173.
Johnson, Fenton. 1996. Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. New York: Scribner. 208 pp.
Johnson, Paul Brett. 1999. Old Dry Frye [children’s folktale]. Illustrations by the author. New York: Scholastic Press. 32 pp. unnumbered.
Johnson, Paul Brett. 2001. Fearless Jack [illustrated children’s folktale]. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books. 32 pp.
Johnson, Paul Brett. 2002. Jack Outwits the Giants [illustrated children’s folktale]. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books. 32 pp., unnumbered.
Johnson, Paul Brett. 2003. “Interview with Paul Brett Johnson, Children’s Author & Illustrator.” By Renee Critcher. Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 356-366.
Jolliff, William F. 2000. Review essay of four poetry collections: The River Hills and Beyond, by Lou V. Crabtree (Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press, 1998); The Silence of Blackberries, by Victor Depta (Martin, Tenn.: Blair Mountain Press, 1999); When It Came Time, by Jeri McCormick (Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Publishing, 1998); Necessary Motions, by Sam Rasnake (Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press, 1998). Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 64-74.
Jolliff, William. 2008. “Revisioning the Journey of Lewis and Clark: Frank X Walker’s York Poems.” Appalachian Journal 36, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2008/Winter 2009): 90-96. Review essay of Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (2004), and When Winter Come: The Ascension of York (2007), both published by University Press of Kentucky.
Jones, Loyal. 2002. “Leicester Luminist Lighted Local Language and Lore” [memories of Jim Wayne Miller]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Winter): 18-25.
Jones, Madison. 2008. The Adventures of Douglas Bragg: A Novel. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 216 pp. College grad’s coming-of-age, 1960, southern picaresque.
Jones, Suzanne Whitmore. 2006. “The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer” (HarperCollins, 2000). Southern Literary Journal 39, no. 1 (Fall): 83-97.
Jordan, Candace, Larry Pugh, and Teresa Hearl, eds. 1999. Mist on the Mon: West Virginia Short Stories [11 stories; north-central W.Va.]. Morgantown, W.Va.: Morgantown Writers Group. 112 pp.
Jose, Brian. 2008. “Appalachian English in Southern Indiana? The Evidence from Verbal -s.” Language Variation and Change 19, no. 3: 249-280.
Joseph, Sheri. 2002. Bear Me Safely Over [fiction; Ga.; gay youth; homophobia]. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 259 pp.
Joslyn, Mauriel. 1998. Shenandoah Autumn: Courage Under Fire [adolescent fiction; Civil War; 15-year-old girl’s courage]. Illustrations by Martha Frances Huston. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing. 152 pp.
Joyner, Nancy Carol, interviewer. 1999. “Sue Ellen Bridgers” [novelist; young adult literature]. Appalachian Journal 26 (Summer): 410-421.
Joyner, Nancy Carol. 1997. “Divine Right’s Metatrip.” The Iron Mountain Review [Gurney Norman Issue] 13 (Spring): 12-15.
Joyner, Nancy Carol. 2006. “All the Brave Promises: Settle’s First Memoir” [Delacorte, 1966; Mary Lee Settle’s Literary Legacy]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 70-72.
Judd, Cameron. 2005. Boone: A Novel of an American Legend [Daniel Boone, 1734-1820]. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 344 pp.
Justus, James H. 2004. Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain [migrating; Arkansas; river culture; yokel; Sut; language]. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 591 pp.
Karon, Jan. 2001. A Common Life: The Wedding Story. The Mitford Years (no. 6) [fictionalized Blowing Rock, N.C.]. New York: Viking. 186 pp.
Karon, Jan. 2002. In This Mountain. The Mitford Years (no. 7). New York: Viking. 382 pp.
Kathryn Stripling Byer Bibliography [27 entries]. 2002. The Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 39.
Kathryn Stripling Byer Issue. 2002. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 1-39.
Kaufman, Schuyler. 2001. Dear Mouse: A Tale of Love, Murder and Movie-Making in the Carolina Mountains. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers. 237 pp.
Kaufmann, Britt. 2007. “Cold and Smellin’ Like Pickles.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 16-19. Interview with Dot Jackson, and publication trials of her 1960s-penned, award-winning novel, Refuge (Novello Festival Press, 2006).
Kay, Terry. 2003. The Valley of Light: A Novel [WWII veteran; 1948 N.C. mountains]. New York: Atria Books of Simon & Schuster. 239 pp.
Keehn, Sally M. 2007. Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for the Buried Moon [juvenile literature; 1872 Ky.; magical tall tale with female hero]. New York: Philomel Books. 198 pp.
Keller, Jane Eblen. 2001. “A Level Place in Up-Hill Times: The Medieval and the Appalachian Woman” [discusses settings in The Great Meadow (1930) and The Time of Man (1926) by Elizabeth Madox Roberts; The Tall Woman (1962) by Wilma Dykeman; and The Dollmaker (1954) by Harriette Simpson Arnow]. Appalachian Heritage 29 (Summer): 21-33.
Kelsay, Michael. 2001. Too Close to Call. [first novel; fictional Oceana, Ky.]. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi. 274 pp.
Kendrick, Leatha, and George Ella Lyon, eds. 2002. Crossing Troublesome: 25 Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop [anthology of accolades from 120+ staff writers at Hindman Settlement School]. Preface by Robert Morgan. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 204 pp.
Kendrick, Leatha. 1998. “Small Presses: Market Niches & Labors of Love” [poetry focus; Sow’s Ear Press, Wind Publications, Gnomon Press, Bottom Dog Press, and others]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 14-16.
Kendrick, Leatha. 2000. Heart Cake [poems]. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press. 65 pp.
Kendrick, Leatha. 2003. Science in Your Own Back Yard: Poems [breast cancer; self-image]. Monterey, Ky.: Larkspur Press. 35 pp.
Kendrick, Leatha. 2008. Second Opinion: Poems. Cincinnati, Oh.: David Robert Books. 68 pp.
Kennedy, Richard S. 2001. “A Look Into Thomas Wolfe’s Workshop: A Review Essay” [O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life (2000); To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence (2000)]. Southern Quarterly 40 (Fall): 147-151.
Kennedy, Sarah. 2002. “‘That Little Gal’s Not Going Anywhere’: Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Incremental Monologues.” The Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 9-15.
Kessler, Brad. 2001. Lick Creek: A Novel [1920s W.Va.]. New York: Scribner. 297 pp.
Kestner, Jack. 2007 [1960]. Fire Tower [adventure, youth novel; 1950s; 16-year-old on Clinch Mountain, Va.]. Reprint. Emory, Va.: Clinch Mountain Press. 159 pp.
Kinder, Chuck. 2004. Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life [W.Va.; outlandish “family stories, lies, legends, and history”]. New York: Carroll & Graf. 480 pp.
King, Vincent. 2000. “Hopeful Grief: The Prospect of Postmodernist Feminism in Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina [1992; incest theme]. Southern Literary Journal 38 (Fall): 122-140.
Kingsolver, Barbara. 2000. Prodigal Summer [fiction]. New York: HarperCollins. 444 pp.
Kingsolver, Barbara. 2001. “Messing with the Sacred: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver” [transcript of award-winning, 1997 documentary aired on PBS (KET)]. Produced and directed by Guy Mendes. Appalachian Journal 28 (Spring): 304-324.
Kingsolver, Barbara. 2006. “Knowing Our Place.” In All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, eds. W. Reed, and J. Horne, 56-65. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Kirk, Stephen. 2004. Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of Appalachia [Western N.C.; memoirs, interviews, insights]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 240 pp.
Kirkland, James W. 2004. “Tales Tall and True: Fred Chappell’s Look Back All the Green Valley and the Continuity of Narrative Tradition” [New York: Picador USA, 1999]. In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 239-255. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J. 2007. Out of the Garden: Poems. Bay City, Mich.: Mayapple Press. 75 pp.
Kohler, Dayton. 2007. “Jesse Stuart and James Still: Mountain Regionalists.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 40-46. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from College English 3, no. 6 (March 1942): 523-533.
Krasne, Betty. 1994. “Criticism, A Mirror of Social Change: Harriette Arnow and Her Critics.” In Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World, ed. Norma Myers. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 6: 113-129. Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.
Krause, Ed. 2006. Our Kinfolks [fiction; investigative reporter from New York City relocates to Southern Appalachia]. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 226 pp.
Krause, Ed. 2007. Our Next of Kin [mystery; Native American murder; sequel to Our Kinfolks (2006)]. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 242 pp.
Kraver, Jeraldine R. 2006. “Southern Shadows: Mammoth Cave Meets Plato’s Cave in Davis McCombs’s Ultima Thule” [poems, Yale University Press (2000)]. In CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 253-266. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Kretzschmar, William A., Jr. 2003. “Mapping Southern English” [language variation; 16 maps]. American Speech 78 (Summer): 130-149.
Kroll, Harry Harrison. 2008 [1946]. Their Ancient Grudge [fiction; Hatfield-McCoy feud]. Reprint, with an introduction by Richard L. Saunders. Appalachian Echoes Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 324 pp. Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill.
Labovitz, Trudy. 1999. Ordinary Justice [female detective fiction; W.Va.; murder, moonshine, domestic violence]. Duluth, Minn.: Spinsters Ink. 232 pp.
Labovitz, Trudy. 2000. Deadly Embrace [mystery; W.Va. female detective]. Duluth, Minn.: Spinsters Ink. 200 pp.
Ladd, Barbara. 2002. “‘Longing for the Future’ in Donald Harington’s The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks” [Little, Brown, 1975]. Southern Review 38 (Autumn): 827-841.
Laminack, Lester L. 2004. Saturdays and Teacakes [children’s literature; memories of Saturdays with Mammaw]. Paintings by Chris Soentpiet. Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree. 30 pp.
Lamont, Elizabeth. 2008. “Don West’s Undergraduate Days at Lincoln Memorial University: The Record vs. the Myth.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 4 (Fall): 40-47. Radical?; Featured Author (1906-1992).
Landis, Catherine. 2002. Some Days There’s Pie [fiction; two women’s friendship]. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 291 pp.
Landis, Catherine. 2004. Harvest [fiction; East Tenn.; three generations from 1930s TVA displacement to present]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. 338 pp.
Lang, John, ed. 2006. Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 362 pp. [“Original interviews conducted during Emory & Henry College’s annual literary festivals and published in the Iron Mountain Review”]. Contents: James Still / interview by Jim Wayne Miller (1983) -- Fred Chappell / interview by Shelby Stephenson (1984) -- Lee Smith / interview by Dorothy Hill (1985) -- John Ehle / interview by Wilma Dykeman (1986) -- Jim Wayne Miller / interview by Loyal Jones (1988) -- Wilma Dykeman / interview by Richard Marius (1989) -- Robert Morgan / interview by William Harmon (1990) -- Mary Lee Settle / interview by Brian Rosenberg (1990) -- Charles Wright / interview by David Young (1991) -- David Huddle / interview by George Garrett (1992) -- George Ella Lyon / interview by Jeff Daniel Marion (1994) -- Jeff Daniel Marion / interview by Stephen Marion (1994) -- Meredith Sue Willis / interview by Karen Morgan (1995) -- Gurney Norman / interview by Patricia Beaver and Sandra L. Ballard (1996) -- Jo Carson / interview by Pat Arnow (1997) -- Denise Giardina / interview by Thomas Douglass (1998) -- George Scarbrough / interview by J.W. Williamson (1999) -- Lisa Alther / interview by Wayne J. Pond (2000) -- Kathryn Stripling Byer / interview by Lee Smith (2001) -- Michael McFee / interview by Michael Chitwood (2002) -- Ron Rash / interview by Joyce Compton Brown (2003).
Lang, John, ed. 2007. “Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue.” The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 1-73. Ten panel discussions, plus writers’ responses to the question, “What are your ‘Allegiances’.” Festival participants: Sharyn McCrumb, Lisa Alther, Gurney Norman, Denise Giardina, Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jo Carson, George Ella Lyon, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Meredith Sue Willis, Ron Rash, John Ehle, Robert Morgan, Maggie Anderson, Michael McFee, David Huddle, Lee Smith, [group photograph]. See also the University of Tennessee Press concurrent publication, Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South, reprinting 21 author interviews from The Iron Mountain Review, 1983-2003.
Lang, John. 2000. Understanding Fred Chappell [b. 1936; N.C. poet, novelist, short story writer]. Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 325 pp.
Lang, John. 2002. “Lester Ballard: McCarthy’s Challenge to the Reader’s Compassion” [Child of God (1974)]. In Sacred Violence, I: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Works, eds. W. Hall and R. Wallach, 103-111. El Paso: Texas Western Press.
Lang, John. 2003. “‘Measures of Grace’: Religious Consciousness in Jeff Daniel Marion’s Poetry.” Appalachian Heritage 31 (Fall): 26-33.
Lang, John. 2004. “Windies and Rusties: Fred Chappell As Humorist.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 204-218. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Lang, John. 2006. Review essay of Coming to Rest: Poems, by Kathryn Stripling Byer (LSU Press, 2006). Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 87-89.
Lang, John. 2007. Review essay of James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature (McFarland, 2007). Mississippi Quarterly 60, no. 4 (Fall): 759-762.
Langan, John. 2001. “Ballad Form and Catholic Chastity in Elizabeth Madox Robert’s Black Is My Truelove’s Hair” [1938; her last novel]. Appalachian Heritage 29 (Summer): 43-56.
Langan, John. 2001. “Elizabeth Madox Roberts: An Introduction.” Appalachian Heritage 29 (Summer): 19-20.
Lanier, Parks, Jr. 2002. “Appalachian Writers.” In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 309-315. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Lanier, Parks. 2006. “And They Thought He Was Quare” [poem “for J.M.”; Featured Author–Jeff Mann]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 8-9.
Laskas, Gretchen Moran. 2003. The Midwife’s Tale [debut novel; 1920s-30s W.Va.]. New York: Dial Press. 256 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry.
Laskas, Gretchen Moran. 2004. “A Hopeful Coming of Age” [reviews Clay’s Quilt, 2001 novel by Silas House]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Spring): 28-31.
Laskas, Gretchen Moran. 2007. The Miner’s Daughter [adolescent fiction; 1932 Arthurdale, W.Va.; coming-of-age]. New York: Simon & Schuster. 250 pp.
Lazenby, Traci. 2004. “Myth and Mundane in More Shapes Than One” [New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991]. In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 132-149. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
LeCroy, Anne. 2003. “The Lure of the Lore: Two Hamelin Novels by Sharyn McCrumb.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 51-58. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Ledford, Brenda Kay. 2006. Shew Bird Mountain: Poems [Great Smoky Mountains; winner of the 2007 Paul Green Multimedia Award]. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 29 pp.
Ledford, Brenda Kay. 2008. Sacred Fire: Poems. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 23 pp.
Ledford, Katherine. 2006. Review essay of Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth (U. Tenn. Pr., 2004), and Running Mad for Kentucky: Frontier Travel Accounts, ed. E. Eslinger (U. Pr. Ky., 2004). Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 2 (Spring): 96-100.
Lee, Ernest, ed. 2002. Being of These Hills: Readings from Appalachian Writers. Boston, Mass.: Pearson Custom Publishing. 226 pp. [rich literary sampling: 30 established writers; 86 pieces of poetry and fiction; see also Lee’s earlier anthology, Discovering Place: Readings from Appalachian Writers (various editions, 1992-1997, McGraw-Hill)].
Lee, Ernest, ed. 2002. Being of These Hills: Readings from Appalachian Writers [anthology: 30 writers, 84 pieces of poetry and fiction]. Boston, Mass: Pearson Custom Publishing. 226 pp.
Lee Smith, special issue [with complete bibliography]. 2001. Pembroke Magazine 33: 1-362.
Lee Smith [featured author]. 2003. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Winter): 16-43.
Leeper, Angela C. 2003. “The ‘Other America’: Looking at Appalachian and Cajun/Creole Resources” [children’s literature]. MultiCultural Review 12 (March): 34-42.
Leidig, Dan. 2000. Time Out: Poems [32 poems by former Emory & Henry Dean]. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press. 39 pp.
LeRoy-Frazier, Jill. 2008. “Appalachian Literature and the Postcolonial: A GPS for Appalachian Literary Studies.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 24, (September): 125-132.
LeRoy, J. T. 2000. Sarah [first novel; W.Va. truckstops & transvestites coming of age tale]. New York: Bloomsbury. 166 pp.
LeRoy, J. T. 2001. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things [short stories; street hustler; W.Va., San Francisco]. New York: Bloomsbury. 224 pp.
LeSourd, Nancy. 2003. Christy: Christmastime at Cutter Gap [Children’s fiction; Great Smoky Mountains; based on the 1967 novel Christy by Catherine Marshall]. Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz. 32 pp.
Lilley, James D. 2000. “Of Whales and Men: The Dynamics of Cormac McCarthy’s Environmental Imagination.” Southern Quarterly 38 (Winter): 111-122.
Lindberg, Laurie. 1999. “Denise Giardina: Challenging the Bullies of Appalachia.” The Iron Mountain Review 15 (Spring): 15-21.
Linney, Romulus. 1997. Mountain Memory: A Play About Appalachian Life. New York: Dramatists Play Service. 53 pp.
Linney, Romulus. 2000. Nine Adaptations for the American Stage. Hanover, N.H.: Smith and Kraus. 432 pp.
Linney, Romulus. 2004 [1962]. Heathen Valley: A Novel [missionary preacher; 1850s Valle Crucis, N.C.]. Reprint. Washington, D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard. 321 pp. Originally published: New York: Atheneum.
Lisa Alther Bibliography [44 entries]. 2001. The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 38-39.
Lisa Alther Issue. 2001. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 1-39.
Literary Map of West Virginia [website; 150 authors]. 2004. Project director, Phyllis Wilson Moore; sponsor, West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University. Illustrated by Noel Tenney. http://www.fscwv.edu/wvfolklife/literary_map/index.shtml.
Loest, Judy, and Jack Rentfro, eds. 2004. Knoxville Bound: A Collection of Literary Works Inspired by Knoxville, Tennessee [56 writers]. Knoxville, Tenn.: MetroPulse Publishing. 323 pp. Contributors include: James Agee, Nikki Giovanni, Jeff and Linda Marion, Ted Olson, George Scarbrough, and Marianne Worthington.
Loest, Judy. 2002. “Family Reunion” [prize-winning poem, with author profile by Jane Harris Woodside]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Summer): 7-8.
Loest, Judy. 2005. “Finding Wang Wei in Knoxville, Tennessee” [poetic inspiration]. In Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 122-126. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Loest, Judy. 2007. After Appalachia: Poems. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 29 pp.
Logsdon, Gene. 2001. The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable [Wally Spero’s reclaimed strip-mine land; Ohio]. Forward by Wendell Berry, photographs by Gregory Spaid. Athens: Ohio University Press. 58 pp.
Long, Cleta M. 1997. Dry Fork’s Daughter [autobiographical poems by former candidate for WV Poet Laureate]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co. 106 pp.
Luce, Dianne C. 1996. “On the Trail of History in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian” [review essay of Notes on Blood Meridian, by John Sepich, Louisville, Ky.: Bellarmine College Press, 1993]. Mississippi Quarterly 49 (Fall): 843-849.
Luce, Dianne C. 2002. “The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God. In Cormac McCarthy: New Directions, ed. J. Lilly, 171-198. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Luce, Dianne C. 2002. “‘They Aint the Thing’: Artifact and Hallucinated Recollection in Cormac McCarthy’s Early Frame-Works.” In Cormac McCarthy, ed. H. Bloom, 113-130. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
Lyon, George Ella, ed. 2003. A Kentucky Christmas [collection of Ky. holiday fiction, poems, songs, essays by 67 writers]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 337 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 1997. With a Hammer for My Heart [fiction]. New York: DK Ink. 224 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 1999 [1988]. Borrowed Children [juvenile fiction; Depression-era Ky., Tenn.]. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 154 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 1999. Where I’m From, Where Poems Come From. Spring, Tex.: Absey & Co. 98 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 1999. Where I’m From, Where Poems Come From. Spring, Tex.: Absey & Co. 98 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 2003. “The Right to a Voice” [essay: poet’s voice]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Winter-Spring): 196-199.
Lyon, George Ella. 2004. Weaving the Rainbow [children’s book; sheep farm]. Illustrated by Stephanie Anderson. New York: Atheneum. 24 pp., unnumbered.
Lyon, George Ella. 2007. Don’t You Remember: A Memoir [mysterious memories; past-life experiences]. Louisville, Ky.: Motes. 216 pp.
Lyon, George Ella. 2008. My Friend, the Starfinder. Pictures by Stephen Gammell. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 32 pp., unnumbered. Children’s literature; stars, meteors.
Lyon, Steve. 2004. The Gift Moves [juvenile fiction; abandoned children]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 230 pp.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. 2007. The Old Woman and Her Pig: An Appalachian Folktale [classic children’s tale]. Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, illustrations by John Kanzler. 30 pp.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. 2007. The Old Woman and Her Pig: An Appalachian Folktale [classic children’s tale]. Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, illustrations by John Kanzler. 30 pp.
MacKethan, Lucinda H. 2007. “Your Chances to Choose Your Labor: Darnell Arnoult’s Work” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 26-32.
Mackin, Randy. 2000. “By Way of Word” [poetry of George Scarbrough]. The Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 14-19.
Madden, David. 1999 [1969]. Cassandra Singing [fiction; Ky.]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 288 pp. Originally published: New York: Crown Publishers.
Madden, David. 2006. “Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper: Web Montage” (Random House, 1965). In Touching the Web of Southern Novelists, 167-173. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Madden, Kerry. 2005. Gentle’s Holler: A Novel [juvenile fiction; 1960s Maggie Valley, N.C.; poverty; 12-year-old songwriter Livy]. New York: Viking. 237 pp.
Madden, Kerry. 2007. Louisiana’s Song [juvenile fiction; 1963 N.C.; mountain-family daughter copes; disabled father; second in a trilogy]. New York: Viking. 278 pp.
Madden, Kerry. 2008. Jesse’s Mountain. New York: Viking. 304 pp. Juvenile fiction, third in a trilogy; 1960s N.C. mountain family; 12-year-old Livy runs off to Nashville.
Maddox, Marjorie, and Jerry Wemple, eds. 2005. Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 270 pp.
Maggie Anderson Bibliography [36 items]. The Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 43-44.
Maggie Anderson Issue. 2005. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 1-44.
Maillard, Keith. 2000. Gloria [fiction; 1950s W.Va.]. New York: Soho Press. 643 pp.
Maillard, Keith. 2003. The Clarinet Polka [Polish-Americans in fictional, 1969 Raysburg, i.e. Wheeling, W.Va.]. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 384 pp. First published 2002, Toronto, Thomas Allen Publishers.
Maillard, Keith. 2005. Running. Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 1 [fiction; 1950s Raysburg, W.Va. (i.e., Wheeling); adolescent questing]. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Brindle & Glass. 144 pp.
Maillard, Keith. 2006. “A Powerful Shock of Recognition” [Mary Lee Settle’s Literary Legacy]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 63-69.
Maillard, Keith. 2006. “Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation” [Featured Author–Meredith Sue Willis, and her 1981 novel Higher Ground]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 38-45.
Maillard, Keith. 2006. Looking Good. Difficulty at the Beginning, Bk. 4 [fiction]. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Brindle & Glass. 440 pp.
Maillard, Keith. 2006. Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes. Difficulty at the Beginning, Bk. 3 [fiction]. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Brindle & Glass. 152 pp.
Maillard, Keith. 2006. Morgantown. Difficulty at the Beginning, Bk. 2 [fiction; W.Va.; WVU]. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Brindle & Glass. 278 pp.
Makuck, Peter. 2004. “The Kirkman Novels: First and Last Concerns” [It Is Time, Lord (1963); I Am One of You Forever (1985); Brighten the Corner Where You Are (1990); Farewell, I’m Bound to Leave You (1996); Look Back All the Green Valley (1999)]. In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 167-185. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Mallinson, Christine, and Walt Wolfram. 2002. “Dialect Accommodation in a Bi-Ethnic Mountain Enclave Community: More Evidence on the Development of African American English” [N.C.]. Language in Society 31 (November): 743-775.
Mangham, Mack. 2000. Shadow of the Hawk [N.C.; mystery/romance]. Bloomington, Ind.: 1stBook Library. 228 pp.
Manley, Frank. 1998. The Cockfighter [coming-of-age novel; P.E.N./Hemingway Foundation Award for First Fiction]. Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press. 206 pp.
Mann, Jeff. 1998. Bliss [poems; 1998 Stonewall Chapbook Award]. Towson, Md.: Brick House Books. 40 pp.
Mann, Jeff. 2002. “Goldenrod Seeds” [prize-winning poem, with author profile by Jane Harris Woodside]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Summer): 5-6.
Mann, Jeff. 2003. “Devoured” [gay novella set in W.Va.]. In Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire, by Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe, and Jeff Mann, 251-362. New York: Kensington. 352 pp.
Mann, Jeff. 2005. “‘A Beloved Place and People’: Landscape and Folk Culture in the Poetry of Maggie Anderson.” The Iron Mountain Review 21 (Spring): 10-19.
Mann, Jeff. 2006. “Making and Taking Space for Mountaineer Queers: A Talk Given at the 2006 Associated Writing Programs Conference in Austin, Texas.” Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 24-27.
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Manning, Maurice. 2004. A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c [70 biographical, sequential poems written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone]. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt. 128 pp.
Manning, Maurice. 2007. Bucolics: Poems [70 poems; colloquial, divine conversations with “Boss”]. New York: Harcourt. 112 pp.
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Marin, David Lozell. 2002. Crazy Love: A Novel [Tenn.]. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Marion, Jeff Daniel (moderator), with Maggie Anderson, Robert Morgan, and Ron Rash. 2007. “Nature, Place, and the Appalachian Writer” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 18-24.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 1994. Lost & Found. Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 1998. “Try to Picture It: Poetry, Photography, and the Long View.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 21-24.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 1999. The Chinese Poet Awakens [Marion’s collected and new Chinese poems]. Illustrations by Elizabeth Ellison. Lexington, Ky.: Wind. 55 pp.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2001. Letters Home: Poems [50 story poems from childhood]. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press. 86 pp.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2001. “In Memoriam: James Still (1906-2001).” The Iron Mountain Review 17 (Spring): 37.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2002. Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2001. Knoxville, Tenn.: Celtic Cat Publishing. 240 pp.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2003. “‘Be Still and Know’: An Interview.” By Christine Christianson. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Fall): 35-41.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2004. “The Long Way Around: Circling Back Home, A Metaphor for Writing” [essay]. Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter): 214-220.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2004. “The Journey a Poem Makes: Interviewing Jeff Daniel Marion.” Interview by Ernest Lee [2001 series of meetings]. Appalachian Journal 31 (Winter): 194-211.
Marion, Jeff Daniel. 2007. “The Poetry: ‘The Journey of a Worldly Wonder’.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 132-137. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Iron Mountain Review 2, no. 1 (Summer 1984): 17-21.
Marion, Linda Parsons. 2008. Mother Land: Poems. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 73 pp. Story in poems; bi-polar mother, healing, forgiveness.
Marion, Stephen. 2002. Hollow Ground [debut novel; Tenn. zinc-mining town, coming-of-age; fictionalized Jefferson Co.]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 308 pp.
Marius, Richard. 2001. An Affair of Honor [fiction; Marius’ (1933-1999) fourth novel, third of a trilogy]. New York: Knopf. 592 pp.
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Mason, Bobbie Ann. 2005. “George Brosi Interviews Bobbie Ann Mason.” Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 5, no. 2 (Spring): 7-12.
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Mauldin, Joanne Marshall. 2007. Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin? [editing of works-in-progress after his 1938 death]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 361 pp.
Maxwell, Angie. 2004. “The South Beheld: The Influence of James Agee on James Dickey” [Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941); Deliverance (1970)]. Southern Quarterly 42 (Winter): 135-151.
May, Charles. 2001. “Tribute to Jim Still, 1906-2001.” Appalachian Heritage 29 (Fall): 7-9.
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McBride, Kristina Holland. 2005. “Roots” [dialect]. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 1 (Winter): nonfiction section, 850 words. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-1/non-fiction/McBride.htm.
McCaig, Donald. 1998. Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War [fiction; Civil War]. New York: W.W. Norton. 525 pp.
McCarthy, Cormac. 1996. The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press. 93 pp.
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McClanahan, Ed. 1996. A Congress of Wonders. [fiction] Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press. 161 pp.
McClanahan, Ed. 1998. My Vita, If You Will: The Uncollected Ed McClanahan [miscellany of short fiction, essays, reviews]. Edited by Tom Marksbury. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press. 274 pp.
McClanahan, Ed. 2005. “The Story of the Story” [with Gurney Norman; 1969 Palo Alto; U.Ky. basketball]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 3 (Summer): 26-28.
McCombs, Davis. 2000. Ultima Thule [poetry; Mammoth Cave, Ky.]. Foreword by W. S. Merwin. Yale Series of Younger Poets, vol. 94. New Haven: Yale University Press. 52 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 1994. She Walks These Hills. New York: Scribners. 336 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 1995. If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him ... : An Elizabeth MacPherson Novel. New York: Ballantine Books. 276 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 1996. The Rosewood Casket. [fiction] New York: Dutton. 303 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 1997. Foggy Mountain Breakdown: And Other Stories [collected short fiction]. New York: Ballantine Books. 336 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 1998. The Ballad of Frankie Silver [fiction; N.C.]. New York: Dutton. 304 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2000. The PMS Outlaws [eighth Elizabeth McPherson novel]. New York: Ballantine Books. 295 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2001. The Songcatcher: A Ballad Novel [multi-generational, Scotland to N.C.]. New York: Dutton. 321 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2003. “Keepers of the Legends: An Essay on the Influences of Family Legends and Folklore on Fiction.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 7-21. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2003. Ghost Riders: A Novel [Civil War; author’s seventh “ballad novel”]. New York: Dutton. 336 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2005. “St. Dale: The Missing Scene” [revised ending to St. Dale (Kensington Books, 2005)]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 21, no. 2 (Fall): 31-33.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2005. St. Dale [fiction; Dale Earnhart fans’ stock car, race circuit picaresque]. New York: Kensington. 311 pp.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2006. “Grassroots Saints and Honky-Tonk Heroes: A Conversation” (recorded at the Sharyn McCrumb Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, Sept. 30, 2005). Interview by Jane Hicks. The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 24-32.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2006. “Parting Shot” [Sharyn McCrumb Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, Sept. 29-30, 2005]. The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 4-7.
McCrumb, Sharyn. 2007. Once Around the Track [fiction; all-female NASCAR pit crew; Viagra-like product-sponsored male driver]. New York: Kensington. 309 pp.
McDonald, Jeanne. 1997. “Lee Smith: At Home in Appalachia.” Poets & Writers 25 (November/December): 32-41.
McElmurray, Karen Salyer. 1999. Strange Birds in the Trees of Heaven [first novel; eastern Ky.]. Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press. 312 pp.
McElmurray, Karen Salyer. 2008. The Motel of the Stars: A Novel. Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 269 pp. New Age movement, grief/loss, N.C., Ky.
McFee, Michael (moderator), with George Ella Lyon, Jeff Daniel Marion, and Gurney Norman. 2007. “The Blessing of Influence: The Community of Writers in the Appalachian South” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 6-11.
McFee, Michael, and Michael Chitwood. 2008. “At Play in the Graveyard: A Conversation.” The Iron Mountain Review 24 (Spring): 30-38. Interview recorded at the Michael Chitwood Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, Oct. 19, 2007.
McFee, Michael, ed. 1994. The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 276 pp.
McFee, Michael. 1999. “The Epigrammatical Fred Chappell” [considers Chappell’s 1993 poetry collection C]. Southern Literary Journal 31 (Spring): 95-108.
McFee, Michael. 2002. Earthly: Poems. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press. 84 pp.
McFee, Michael. 2003. “Unsent Letter to Robert Morgan” [18 May 1997; “Am I really an Appalachian writer?”]. The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 7-8.
McFee, Michael. 2005. “At Grandfather’s Grave, Again” [Haywood Co., N.C.; 1886-1936]. Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 2 (Spring): 23-25.
McFee, Michael. 2006. Shinemaster: Poems. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. 60 pp.
McFee, Michael. 2006. The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview [22 collected prose pieces covering three decades; N.C.]. Foreword by Doris Betts. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 207 pp.
McFee, Michael. 2007. The Smallest Talk: One-Line Poems [chapbook]. Durham, N.C.: Bull City Press. 31 pp.
McKee, Glenn. 1998. “Crossing Over Troublesome Creek: The Appalachian Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School.” 1998. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 28-29.
McKernan, Llewellyn. 2005. Greatest Hits, 1979-2004 [12 poems]. Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications. 31 pp.
McKinney, Denise R. 2004. Poetry As Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 149 pp.
McKinney, Denise R., ed. 2004. Poetry As Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak [poems “of a sacred, spiritual, or religious nature” selected from 400 submissions]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 149 pp.
McKinney, Irene, ed. 2002. Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. Morgantown: Vandalia Press (West Virginia University Press). 273 pp. [Authors represented: Maggie Anderson, Tom Andrews, Pinckney Benedict, Richard Currey, Mark DeFoe, Victor Depta, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Denise Giardina, Davis Grubb, Lisa Koger, Lee Maynard, John McKernan, Llewellyn McKernan, Irene McKinney, Louise McNeill, Ann Pancake, Breece D'J Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Timothy Russell, Mary Lee Settle, A. E. Stringer, and Meredith Sue Willis.]
McKinney, Irene. 2004. Vivid Companion: Poems [Poet Laureate of W.Va.]. Morgantown, W.Va.: Vandalia Press. 98 pp.
McKinney, Karen Janet. 2004. “Tracing the Hawk’s Shadow: Fred Chappell As Storyteller.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 219-238. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
McMahan, Janna. 2008. Calling Home. New York: Kensington Books. 326 pp. Fiction, Ky.; mother and daughter.
McManus, John. 2000. Stop Breakin Down: Stories [15 stories]. New York: Picador. 263 pp.
McManus, John. 2003. Born on a Train [13 short stories]. New York: Picador. 253 pp.
McManus, John. 2005. Bitter Milk [fiction; Tenn. dysfunctional family; coming-of-age]. New York: Picador. 195 pp.
McNeill, Louise. 1994. Fermi Buffalo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 160 pp.
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McNiece, Ray. 2007. Our Way of Life: Poems. Working Lives Series. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 124 pp.
Mda, Zakes. 2007. Cion: A Novel [episodic tale set in Athens, Ohio, by award-winning South African novelist and playwright Mda; quilting and slavery themes]. New York: Picador. 312 pp.
Medlicott, Joan A. 2004. At Home in Covington [popular fiction series’ fifth title; N.C.; older women friendship]. New York: Atria Books. 309 p.
Megan, Carolyn E. 2002. “Dorothy Allison.” In The History of Southern Women’s Literature, eds. C. Perry and M. Weaks, 584-587. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Meredith Sue Willis Bibliography [48 entries]. 1996. The Iron Mountain Review 12 (Spring): 37.
Meredith Sue Willis Issue. 1996. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 12 (Spring): 1-37.
Merritt, Robert. 2006. Landscape Architects [poems]. Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications. 30 pp.
Metress, Christopher. 2001. “‘Via Negativa’: The Way of Unknowing in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark” [his second novel, 1968]. Southern Review 37 (Winter): 147-154.
Michael Chitwood Bibliography. 2008. The Iron Mountain Review 24 (Spring): p.39, unnumbered. 11 books, 6 articles, 2 websites.
Michael Chitwood Issue. 2008. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 24 (Spring): 1-39.
Michael McFee Bibliography [32 entries]. The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 39-40.
Michael McFee Issue. 2003. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 1-40.
Miles, Caroline S. 2004. “Representing and Self-Mutilating the Laboring Male Body: Re-Examining Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills” [1861; Wheeling, (W.) Va.]. American Transcendental Quarterly (ATQ) 18, no. 2 (June): 90-104.
Miles, Celia H. 2002. Mattie’s Girl: An Appalachian Childhood [fiction; 1940s-era N.C; overcoming odds]. West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity. 181 pp.
Miles, Celia H. 2006. Sarranda [fiction; Civil War-era, Greene Valley, N.C.; one woman’s struggle]. West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity. 191 pp.
Mill Villages and Farmers [textile mills]. 2005. Special issue, American Speech 80, Annual Supplement 90: 1-133. [1. A sociolinguistic study of a southern mill town, 1-12; 2. Settlement patterns, cultural space, and linguistic evolution in the American South, 13-43; 3. Phonological patterns in the linguistic ecology of Griffin, Georgia, 44-74; 4. Grammatical patterns in the linguistic ecology of Griffin, Georgia, 75-100; 5. Social networks and linguistic evolution: a brief case study, 101-117; Appendixes (phonetic notations and an ethnographic timeline for the southeastern U.S.), 119-121].
Millen, C. M. 2004. Blue Bowl Down: An Appalachian Rhyme [children's picture book; bread-making]. Illustrated by Holly Meade. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press. 32 pp.
Miller, Danny, et al. 2006. “Appalachian Literature” [genres, authors, titles; with suggested readings, anthologies]. In A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, eds. G. Edwards, J. Asbury, and R. Cox, 199-216. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Miller, Danny L. 1996. Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction [stereotype; Mary Noailles Murfree, Edith Summers Kelley and Anne W. Armstrong, Emma Bell Miles and Jesse Stuart, James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow]. Bowling Green, Oh.: Popular Press.
Miller, Danny L. 1997. “Kin and Kindness in Gurney Norman’s Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories.” The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 16-23.
Miller, Danny L. 2003. “Sharyn McCrumb’s Use of Ballads in If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O.” In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 59-67. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Miller, Danny L., Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman, eds. 2005. An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Athens: Ohio University Press. 400 pp. [anthology: 29 essays on 17 poets, fiction writers and dramatists. Contents: New directions: Folk or hillbilly? / Cratis D. Williams -- Appalachian literature at home in this world / Jim Wayne Miller -- Jesse Stuart and James Still: Mountain regionalists / Dayton Kohler -- The changing poetic canon: The case of Jesse Stuart and Ezra Pound / Charles H. Daughaday -- James Still’s poetry: “The Journey a Worldly Wonder” / Jeff Daniel Marion -- On Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Christian and the classic in The Dollmaker / Barbara Hill Rigney -- Social criticism in the works of Wilma Dykeman / Oliver King Jones III -- Casting a long shadow: The Tall Woman / Patricia Gantt -- O Beulah Land: The “Yaller Vision” of Jeremiah Catlett / Jane Gentry Vance -- The Beulah/Canona connection: Mary Lee Settle’s autobiographies / Nancy Carol Joyner -- The Appalachian homeplace as oneiric house in Jim Wayne Miller’s The Mountains Have Come Closer / Don Johnson -- The mechanical metaphor: Machine and tool images in The Mountains Have Come Closer / Ricky Cox -- Kin and kindness in Gurney Norman’s Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories / Danny L. Miller -- “The Primal Ground of Life”: The integration of traditional and countercultural values in the work of Gurney Norman / Timothy J. Dunn -- John Ehle and Appalachian fiction / Leslie Banner -- The power of language in Lee Smith’s Oral History / Corinne Dale -- A new, authoritative voice: Fair and Tender Ladies / Dorothy Combs Hill -- “Where’s Love?”: The overheard quest in the stories of Jo Carson / Robert J. Higgs -- Family journeys in Jo Carson’s Daytrips / Anita J. Turpin -- Points of kinship: Community and allusion in Fred Chappell’s Midquest / John Lang -- Fred Chappell’s urn of memory: I Am One of You Forever / Hilbert Campbell -- Coming out from under Calvinism: Religious motifs in Robert Morgan’s poetry / John Lang -- Robert Morgan’s mountain voice and lucid prose / Cecelia Conway -- Class and identity in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven / Terry Easton -- Cormac McCarthy: Restless seekers / John G. Cawelti -- Claiming a literary space: The Affrilachian poets / Theresa L. Burriss -- Nature-loving souls and Appalachian mountains: The promise of feminist ecocriticism / Elizabeth Engelhardt -- The wolves of Aegypt: John Crowley’s Appalachians / Rodger Cunningham -- Supplemental notes on authors -- Contributors].
Miller, Jake. 1999. Looneyville Zip Code 25259 Lore: Appalachian Mountains Folklore, Popular Etymology, Colloquial Speech [W.Va.; glossary, idioms, chapter on ramps]. Philadelphia: Xlibris. 148 pp.
Miller, James A. 2002. “Coming Home to Affrilachia: The Poems of doris davenport.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 96-106. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Miller, Jim Wayne. 1997. The Brier Poems. Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon Press.
Miller, Jim Wayne. 2002. “Tell Them I Said Something” [on being a good writer (previously unpublished)]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Fall): 60-63.
Miller, Jim Wayne. 2007. “The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 190-194. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Heritage 19 (Summer 1991): 20-24.
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Miller, Jim Wayne. 2007. “Jim Dandy: James Still at Eighty.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 209-221. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Heritage 14 (Fall 1986): 8-20.
Miller, Jim Wayne. [1964] 1995. Copperhead Cane: Poems. Reprint, Louisville: Green River Writers/Grex Press. 69 pp.
Miller, Judy K. 2002. “What Kind of Egg Are You? A Profile of Lou V. Crabtree.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 85-93. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Miller, Shawn E. 2007. “‘An Aching Lust to Hurt Somebody Back’: The Exile’s Patrimony in Bastard Out of Carolina” [by Dorothy Allison, 1992]. Southern Quarterly 44, no. 4 (Summer): 139-154.
Miller, Wendy Pearce. 2007. “Implicit Protest in Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Time of Man” [1926]. Southern Quarterly 44, no. 4 (Summer): 116-124.
Millichap, Joseph R. 2002. “Thomas Wolfe’s Southern Railroads: Look Homeward, Angel and Beyond.” Chap. 3 in Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance, 36-47. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Minghella, Anthony. 2003. Cold Mountain: A Screenplay [based on the 1997 novel by Charles Frazier]. New York: Miramax. 174 pp.
Minick, Jim. 2008. Burning Heaven [poems]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 75 pp.
Minick, Jim. 2008. Her Secret Song [poems; elegy]. Louisville, Ky.: MotesBooks. 70 pp.
Mitchell, Felicia, ed. 2002. Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry [includes two poems and a separately-authored essay for each of 20 poets: Maggie Anderson, Marilou Awiakta, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Jo Carson, Lisa Coffman, Lou V. Crabtree, doris davenport, Nikki Giovanni, Patricia A. Johnson, Leatha Kendrick, George Ella Lyon, Linda Parsons Marion, Irene McKinney, Lynn Powell, Rita Sims Quillen, Rita Sizemore Riddle, Bettie Sellers, Besty Sholl, Bennie Lee Sinclair, and Barbara Smith]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 328 pp.
Mitchell, Tanya. 2002. “Beyond Regional Borders: The Emergence of a New Sense of Place, from Mary Murfree to Lee Smith” [insider/outsider values]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 8 (Fall): 407-420.
Mitchell, Tanya. 2003. “Gender, Class, and Regional Tradition in Sharyn McCrumb’s She Walks These Hills” [1994]. In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 123-136. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Mitchell, Ted. 1999 [1997]. Thomas Wolfe: A Writer’s Life. Rev. ed. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, and the Appalachian Consortium. Originally published: Asheville, N.C.: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Historic Site.
Mitchell, Ted. 2007. “The Thomas Wolfe Review” [begun 1977; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 62-63.
Mock, Michele L. 2002. “Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story’” [1875; Silhouettes of American Life, New York: Scribner’s (1892), 239-68; tuberculosis; “iconoclastic polarities of gender”]. Legacy 19, no. 2: 152-169.
Moffett, Joe. 2008. Understanding Charles Wright. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 158 pp. Contents: Introduction to Charles Wright – On Country Music – On The World of the Ten Thousand Things – On Negative Blue – On Later Books.
Mohring, Ron, Michael McFee, and Lynne Knight. 2005. Touch Me Not, by Ron Mohring / Never Closer, by Michael McFee / Life as Weather, by Lynne Knight [poetry; three chapbooks bound together]. The Two Rivers Review Poetry Chapbook Series, v. 5-7. Clinton, NY: Two Rivers Review. 91 pp.
Monk, Bathsheba. 2006. Now You See It ... : Stories from Cokesville, PA [17 stories; Polish-American families; coal and steel town]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 228 pp.
Monroe, Mary Alice. 2008. Time Is a River. New York: Pocket Books. 369 pp. Romance/mystery; cancer survivor; N.C. mountains rediscovery; fly fishing.
Montgomery, Michael, and Ellen Johnson, eds. 2007. Language [68 entries, incl. “Appalachian English” and “Storytelling”]. Vol. 5 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 226 pp.
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Montgomery, Michael B. 2008. “Appalachian English: Morphology and Syntax.” In Varieties of English, 2: The Americas and the Caribbean, ed. E. Schneider, 428-467. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
Montgomery, Michael B., and Joseph S. Hall, eds. 2004. Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English [6000 entries with quotations in context; 1930s informants]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 710 pp. Weatherford Award winner for non-fiction.
Montgomery, Michael. 1995. "Does Tennessee Have Three 'Grand Dialects'?: Evidence From the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 57 (no. 2): 68-86.
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Montgomery, Michael. 2002. “Joseph Hall: The Man and His Work” [made first permanent recordings of Smoky Mountains speech and music, 1939-40]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Winter): 23-26.
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Montgomery, Michael. 2005. “Voices of My Ancestors: A Personal Search for the Language of the Scotch-Irish.” American Speech 80, no. 4 (Winter): 341-365.
Montgomery, Michael. 2005. Review essay of Mountain Talk: Language and Life in Southern Appalachia [DVD/videocassette. Produced by Neal Hutcheson and Walt Wolfram. Raleigh: North Carolina Language and Life Project, Humanities Extension/ Publications, North Carolina State University, 2003]. Appalachian Journal 32, no. 3 (Spring): 389-395.
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Morgan, Robert (moderator), with Kathryn Stripling Byer, Fred Chappell, and Denise Giardina. 2007. “Religion, the Sacred, and the Appalachian Writer” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 39-45.
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Morgan, Robert. 1996. "Robert Morgan." Interview by Tal Stanley. Appalachian Journal 23 (Spring): 276-292.
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Morgan, Robert. 2000. Topsoil Road [poems]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 64 pp.
Morgan, Robert. 2001. “Getting the Voices Right: A Conversation with Robert Morgan About The Gardener’s Son” [for the documentary “Acting McCarthy: The Making of Richard Pearce’s ‘The Gardener’s Son’” (1977; screenplay by Cormac McCarthy)]. Interview by Peter Josyph. Southern Quarterly 40 (Fall): 121-131.
Morgan, Robert. 2001. “You Can’t Get There From Here” [influence of poet and N.C. neighbor Carl Sandburg]. Appalachian Journal 28 (Winter): 222-226.
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Morgan, Robert. 2004. “‘the moral ambiguity of that time’: A Conversation with Robert Morgan.” Interview by Resa Crane Bizzaro and Patrick Bizzaro. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Summer): 11-17.
Morgan, Robert. 2004. “The Birth of Music from the Spirit of Comedy.” Foreword in More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, ix-xiv. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Morgan, Robert. 2004. The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems [14 new poems and 79 from nine previous collections spanning 35 years]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 137 pp.
Morgan, Robert. 2005. “Coming Down from Pisgah: A Memoir of Michael McFee.” Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 2 (Spring): 23-25.
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Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia, fall 2001– [2003 winner of ASA's e-Appalachia Award]. Quarterly electronic journal hosted by the Appalachian College Association. http://www.nantahalareview.org/.
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Norman, Gurney (moderator), with Denise Giardina, David Huddle, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. 2007. “The Perils of Regionalism: Labels and Their Limitations” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 25-31.
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Norman, Gurney. 1997. “The Turning of the Year (Part I of a Novella)” [excerpt]. The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 5-7
Norman, Gurney. 1997. “Time on the River” [excerpts]. The Iron Mountain Review 13 (Spring): 8-11.
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Norman, Gurney. 2007. “A Memorable Day” [Asheville pilgrimage after reading Look Homeward, Angel; Featured Author–Thomas Wolfe]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 41-42.
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Pancake, Ann. 2006. “Virtual Hillbilly: Musings on JT LeRoy by a Flesh-and-Blood West Virginian” [hoax author of Sarah (2000) and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2001) unmasked]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 3 (Summer): 35-45.
Pancake, Ann. 2007. Strange As This Weather Has Been: A Novel [mountaintop removal destruction; effects on a W.Va. coal mining family]. Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 352 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry.
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Patterson, Laura Sloan. 2008. “Trains, Letters, and Pickled Peppers: Lee Smith and the Effect of Railway Unification on Appalachian Domesticity.” Chap. 4 in Stirring the Pot: The Kitchen and Domesticity in the Fiction of Southern Women, by L. Patterson, 107-139. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
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Phillips, Claude S. 2004. The Shot from the Mountain: An Appalachian Odyssey [fiction; 1920s-1930s W.Va. mine wars: Matewan, Blair Mountain]. Allegan Forest, Mich.: Priscilla Press. 285 pp.
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Piacentino, Ed. 2000. “Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor” [Taliaferro, Simms, Harris, and others]. Southern Literary Journal 32 (Spring): 116-140.
Piacentino, Ed. 2002. “Searching for Home: Cross-Racial Bonding in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain” [Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997]. Mississippi Quarterly 55 (Winter 2002-2003): 97-116.
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Poetry in the South. 2007. Special issue, Southern Quarterly 45, no. 1 (Fall): 1-147. Poems by 30 poets, including R. T. Smith, Robert Morgan, Ron Rash, and Charles Wright.
Poetry. 2007. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Poetry section [selections from 17 poets, including George Ella Lyon, Leatha Kendrick, Ron Rash, Jim Minick, and Frank X Walker]. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/poetry/index.html.
Poland, Tim. 2008. The Safety of Deeper Water: A Novel. Morgantown, W.Va.: Vandalia Press. 263 pp. Blue Ridge, Va., fly fisherwoman and prisoner’s wife.
Pollock, Donald Ray. 2008. Knockemstiff. New York: Doubleday. 206 pp. Fiction; coming-of-age stories of raunchy characters set in 1965 Knockemstiff, Ohio; cf. “outlaw fiction” authors Chuck Kinder, Lee Maynard, and M. Glenn Taylor.
Portelli, Alessandro. 2000. “The Many Autobiographies of a Coal Miner’s Daughter” [Loretta Lynn]. In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film, ed. W. Thesing, 244-254. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
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Puckett, Anita. 2000. “On the Pronunciation of Appalachia” [dialect; linguistic history]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 25-29.
Puckett, Anita. 2003. “The ‘Value’ of Dialect as Object: The Case of Appalachian English.” Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association 13 (September-December): 539-549.
Puckett, Anita. 2004. “ Identity, Hybridity, and Linguistic Ideologies of Racial Language in the Upper South” [Melungeons and Scotch Irish]. In Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices and Ideologies, ed. M. Bender, 120-137. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 37. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Pyle, Jack R. 1998. The Sound of Distant Thunder: An Appalachian Novel [mystery; 1999 Book of the Year winner, Appalachian Writers Association]. Micaville, N.C.: Aacorn Books. 228 pp.
Pyle, Jack R. 2000. After Many a Summer: An Autumn Love Story [fiction; N.C.]. Micaville, N.C.: Aacorn Books. 245 pp.
Quillen, Rita S. 2003. “Ten Life Lessons in the Poetry of Michael McFee.” The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 23-28.
Quillen, Rita Sims. 2003. “Good Ol’ Fred Wrestles His Anima: Women in the Poetry of Fred Chappell.” Appalachian Heritage 31 (Summer): 43-47.
Quillen, Rita Sims. 2006. Her Secret Dream [poems]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 89 pp.
Rankin, Tom. 2007. “Share a Table, Make a Friend” [Featured Author–Darnell Arnoult; UNC classmate, 1980]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 22-23.
Rannit, Aleksis. 2007. “Still’s Poetry and the Western Tradition.” In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 138-140. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from Appalachian Heritage 14, no. 4 (Fall 1986): 21-24.
Rash, Ron. 1998. Eureka Mill [40 poems; textile mill village life, Chester, S.C., 1915-1950s]. Corvallis, Ore.: The Bench Press.
Rash, Ron. 2000. Among the Believers [N.C.; narrative, ancestral poetry cycle]. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 71 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2000. Casualties: Stories. Beaufort, S.C.: Bench Press. 151 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2002. One Foot in EdEN [first novel; Jocassee Valley, S.C.; Novello Literary Award]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Novello Festival Press. 214 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2002. Raising the Dead [poems; Jocassee Valley, S.C.]. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 75 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2004. “The Power of Blood-Memory: A Conversation (recorded at the Ron Rash Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, October 24, 2003).” Interview by Joyce Compton Brown. The Iron Mountain Review 20 (Spring): 26-35.
Rash, Ron. 2004. Saints at the River: A Novel [Oconee Co., S.C., river drowning victim]. New York: Henry Holt. 239 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry.
Rash, Ron. 2006. The World Made Straight [fiction; Madison Co., N.C.: drugs, Civil War, thriller]. New York: Henry Holt. 289 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2007. “‘The Natural World Is the Most Universal of Languages’: An Interview with Ron Rash” [b. 1953]. By Thomas Aervold Bjerre. Appalachian Journal 34, no. 2 (Winter): 216-227. Interview conducted May 16, 2006, in Mars Hill, N.C.
Rash, Ron. 2007. Chemistry and Other Stories [13 stories]. New York: Picador. 230 pp.
Rash, Ron. 2008. Serena: A Novel. New York: Ecco Press. 371 pp. Weatherford Award winner for fiction and poetry. Greed/power/evil morality tale; 1929, N.C. lumber camp.
Ravenel, Shannon, ed. 1996. Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South [includes stories by Lee Smith and Tony Earley]. Selected and introduced by Anne Tyler. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 423 pp.
Ravenel, Shannon, ed. 2005. Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South [including stories by Lee Smith and Chris Offutt]. Selected and introduced by Anne Tyler. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 342 pp.
Ravenel, Shannon. 2003. “Reunion” [Lee Smith briefly featured]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Winter): 24-26.
Ray, Delia. 2003. Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story [adolescent fiction; 1930 Madison Co., Va.; schools/teachers/grief]. New York: Clarion Books. 216 pp.
Reactions to Chris Offutt’s No Heroes [2002 memoir (New York: Simon & Schuster)]. 2002. By Garry Barker, et al. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Fall): 92-97.
Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910 [W.Va. author; Life in the Iron Mills (1861)]. 2000. In Short Story Criticism, vol. 38, ed. A. Barnard, 94-154. Detroit: Gale Group.
Reece, Byron Herbert. 1994 [1955]. The Hawk and the Sun. Reprint, with a foreword by Hugh Ruppersburg. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 192 pp.
Reece, Byron Herbert. 2002. Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece [1917-1958; Ga.]. Edited by Jim Clark. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 185 pp.
Reece, Byron Herbert. 2007. Faithfully Yours: The Letters of Byron Herbert Reece [1917-1958]. Edited by Raymond A. Cook and Alan Jackson. Marietta, Ga.: Cherokee Publishing Company. 125 pp.
Reece, Erik. 2008. Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 140 pp. Poems by 25 poets including James Still, Wendell Berry, Charles Wright, Jim Wayne Miller, and four ancient Chinese poets.
Reed, Steve, and Aaron Reed. 2006. Myth of the Summer Moon [young adult fiction; life parallels Greek legend in Depression-era Appalachia]. Winona Lake, Ind.: Baker Trittin Press. 159 pp.
Remembrances of Mary Lee Settle. 2006. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 26-40. [“‘She’s High-Strung, You Know’” / Patty Tompkins; “‘I Simply Know Things’” / Katherine Neville; “That Flocoe Floor” / Ron Day; “‘The Highest Mount’” / Gretchen Moran Laskas; “Full Immersion at the Rivanna” / Justin A. Sarafin; “In the Literary Trenches with Mary Lee” / Starling Lawrence].
Reynolds, Jennifer Adkins. 2008. “Turn Your Radio On: Music in the Novels of Silas House.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 24, (September): 157-164. Clay’s Quilt (2001), and The Coal Tattoo (2004).
Rhodes, J. Stephen. 2008. The Time I Didn’t Know What to Do Next [poems]. Introduction by Leatha Kendrick. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 88 pages.
Richards, Emilie. 2006. Lover’s Knot [mystery/romance fiction; Shenandoah Valley]. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Mira. 541 pp.
Richman, Ann F. 2002. “Singing Our Hearts Away: The Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer.” In Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry, ed. Felicia Mitchell, 38-48. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Richman, Ann F., ed. 1996. The Plow Reader: Selections from an Appalachian Alternative Newsmagazine of the Late 1970s. Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press. 312 pp.
Rickey, Melissa J., and Darcey H. Bradley. 2000. “Appalachian Writers and Writing” [rich body of children’s literature resulting from oral tradition]. Book Links 9 (July): 13-18.
Riehle, Mary Ann McCabe. 2004. M Is for Mountain State: A West Virginia Alphabet [ages 9-12]. Illustrated by Laura J. Bryant. Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press. 40 pp.
Riggan, Rob. 2007. The Blackstone Commentaries [crime fiction; 1972 N.C.; sheriff]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 340 pp.
Riggs, Jack. 2003. When the Finch Rises [fiction; 1968 N.C. mill town; friendship between two 12-year-old boys]. New York: Ballantine Books. 229 pp.
Riggs, Jack. 2008. The Fireman’s Wife: A Novel [S.C.; N.C.]. New York: Ballantine Books. 329 pp.
Rinaldi, Ann. 1999. The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys [adolescent fiction; 1880s W.Va., Ky.]. Great Episodes series. San Diego: Harcourt Brace. 228 pp.
Rivers, Francine. 1998. The Last Sin Eater: A Novel [Christian fiction; Great Smoky Mountains]. Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House. 324 pp.
Robbins, Dorothy Dodge. 1997. “Personal and Cultural Transformation: Letter Writing in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies.” Critique (Atlanta, Ga.) 38 (Winter): 135-144.
Roberts, Alma Dolen. 2006. Stories from the Upper Cumberland [fiction; b. 1917; Wayne Co., Ky.; three stories based on author’s childhood]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 144 pp.
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox. 2000 [1926]. The Time of Man [fiction; Ky.]. Reprint, with an introduction by Wade Hall. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 395 pp. Originally published: New York: Viking Press.
Roberts, Terry. 1999. “Within the Green Bowl: Community in the Mountain Fiction of John Ehle.” Pembroke Magazine 31: 90-98.
Roberts, Terry. 1999. “Within the Green Bowl: Community in the Mountain Fiction of John Ehle.” Pembroke Magazine 31: 90-98.
Roberts, Terry. 2000. “Resurrecting Thomas Wolfe” [post-Look Homeward, Angel (1929)]. Southern Literary Journal 38 (Fall): 27-41.
Roberts, Terry. 2002. “O Lost: A Family History” [Thomas Wolfe]. Mississippi Quarterly 55 (Winter 2002-2003): 63-73.
Robertson, Sarah. 2002. “The Secret Country: Prohibited Desire and Social Change in Jane Anne Phillips’ ‘Bess’” [short story; Fast Lanes (1984)]. European Journal of American Culture 21 (no. 3): 121-132.
Robertson, Sarah. 2004. “Dislocations: Retracing the Erased in Jayne Anne Phillips’s Shelter [her second novel (1994)]. Mississippi Quarterly 57 (Spring): 289-311.
Robertson, Sarah. 2007. The Secret Country: Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips’ Cryptic Fiction. New York: Rodopi. 291 pp.
Robinson, Ella. 1998. A Guide to Literary Sites of the South [13 states; 26 authors]. Northport, Ala.: Vision Press.
Robinson, Sherry. 2004. “Perchance to Dream: Harriette Arnow’s Between the Flowers” [penned 1939; published 1999]. Kentucky Philological Review 18: 22-27.
Rochelle, Warren. 2004. “The Flashing Phantasmagoria of Rational Life: The Platonic Borderlands of Fred Chappell’s Forever Tetralogy.” In More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, ed. P. Bizarro, 186-203. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Rodd, Priscilla A. 2006. Surviving Mae West [fiction; W.Va., N.Y.C., prostitution, self-discovery, healing]. Morgantown, W.Va.: Vandalia Press. 207 pp.
Roe, Charles L. 2006. Cumberland: A Novel [Ky.; mineral rights; Melungeon wife]. New York: iUniverse. 336 pp.
Romine, Scott. 2003. “The Capital Comedy of William Gilmore Simms’s ‘Sharp Snaffles’” [1870; Western N.C. stereotypes]. Southern Quarterly 41 (Winter): 11-22.
Ron Rash Bibliography [11 entries]. 2004. The Iron Mountain Review 20 (Spring): 36.
Ron Rash Issue. 2004. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 20 (Spring): 1-36.
Ross, Ann B. 2006. Miss Julia Stands Her Ground [popular fiction: mystery; N.C.; paternity]. New York: Viking. 306 pp.
Ross, Charlotte. 2004. “Sister Sharyn” [Sharyn McCrumb]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Fall): 27-29.
Rouse, Viki Dasher. 2008. “Mildred Haun: A Haunting Life Story.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 2 (Spring): 19-24. Featured Author; b. 1911, Hamblen County, Tenn.; author of The Hawk’s Done Gone (1940).
Rubin, Rachel Lee. 1998. “‘My Country Is Kentucky’: Leaving Appalachia in Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker.” In Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation, ed. S. Roberson, 176-189. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. 1998. Icy Sparks [fiction; 1950s-60s Ky.; orphaned heroine copes with Tourette’s syndrome.]. New York: Viking. 308 pp.
Rudes, Blair A. 2004. “Multilingualism in the South: A Carolinas Case Study” [history]. In Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology, ed. M. Bender, 37-49. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 37. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Rueda-Ramos, Carmen. 2003. “The Figure of the Marginal Male” [outsider male characters in Lee Smith’s fiction]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Winter): 27-35.
Runyon, Randolph Paul. 2007. “Looking the Story in the Eye: ‘I Love My Rooster’” [short story]. In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 115-121. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Southern Literary Journal 23, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 55-64.
Ruppersburg, Hugh, and John C. Inscoe, eds. 2007. The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature [130 entries, mostly authors]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 474 pp. Prints all literary entries available on the NGE website by the end of 2006: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp.
Ruppersburg, Hugh. 2003. “Poet of North Georgia” [Bryon Herbert Reece]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Spring): 64-66.
Rye, Edgar. [1909] 1995. Colleen, The Mountain Maid: A Story of War and Feud in Kentucky. Edited by Charles E. Linck, Jr. Commerce, Tex.: Cow Hill Press. 287 pp.
Rylant, Cynthia, and Chris K. Soentpiet, illustrator. 1997. Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story [children’s literature]. New York: Orchard Books.
Rylant, Cynthia, and Ellen Beier, illustrator. 1997. The Blue Hill Meadows [children’s fiction; Va.]. New York: Harcourt Brace. 43 pp.
Rylant, Cynthia. 2001 [1985]. A Blue Eyed Daisy [W.Va. coal camp; juvenile fiction]. Reprint. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. 99 pp. Originally published: New York: Bradbury Press.
Rylant, Cynthia. 2002. Christmas in the Country [children’s story]. Illustrations by Diana Goode. New York: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic. 32 unnumbered pages.
Rylant, Cynthia. 2004. Long Night Moon [children’s literature; illustrations depict varied seasonal full moons]. Illustrated by Mark Siegel. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 30 pp.
Rylant, Cynthia. 2006. Ludie’s Life [fiction; narrative poem follows a woman from youth to old age in a W.Va. mining town]. New York: Harcourt. 116 pp.
Salner, David. 2008. John Henry’s Partner Speaks. Cincinnati, Oh.: WordTech Editions. 104 pp. Poems of manual labor, slavery, John Henry.
Salvucci, Claudio R. 1997. A Dictionary of Pennsylvanianisms [glossary; seven subregional dialects]. Dialect Dictionaries of the Mid-Atlantic, vol. 1. Southampton, Pa.: Evolution Publishing. 146 pp.
Samples, Mack. 1994. Doodle Bug, Doodle Bug, Your House Is On Fire: An Appalachian Novel [W.Va.; 1950s coming-of-age]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co. 268pp.
Samples, Mack. 1995. Dust on the Fiddle [fiction; W.Va.; 1960s campus/culture change; folk revival; sequel to Doodle Bug (1994)]. Parsons, W.Va.: McClain. 254 pp.
Samples, Mack. 1995. Dust on the Fiddle [fiction; W.Va.; 1960s campus/culture change; folk revival; sequel to Doodle Bug (1994)].
Sanborn, Wallis R. 2006. Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 190 pp.
Sandell, Jillian. 1997. “Telling Stories of ‘Queer White Trash’: Race, Class, and Sexuality in the Work of Dorothy Allison.” In White Trash: Race and Class in America, eds. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, 211-230. New York: Routledge.
Sasser, Jane. 2008. Recollecting the Snow [poems]. Greensboro, N.C.: March Street Press. 43 pp.
Satterwhite, Emily. 2006. “Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception” [Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud. of Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922)]. American Literature 78, no. 1 (March): 59-88.
Scafidi, Steve. 2001. Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: Poems. Southern Messenger Poets. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 64 pp.
Scafidi, Steve. 2006. For Love of Common Words: Poems. Southern Messenger Poets. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 72 pp.
Scales, Pat. 2005. “Ruth White: A Voice from Appalachia” [profile, interview, reviews of seven books including Belle Prater’s Boy (1996)]. Book Links 14 (May): 10-13.
Scalf, Laurene. 1998. “Rhymes & Reasons” [Athens Co., Ohio; Rural Action poetry endeavor]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Summer): 30-33.
Scarbrough, George. 2000 [1949]. Tellico Blue [poems]. Reprint. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press. 128 pp. Originally published: New York: E. P. Dutton.
Scarbrough, George. Interview by Jerry Williamson. 2000. “The Country and Beyond: A Conversation (Recorded at Appalachian State University, November 18, 1999).” The Iron Mountain Review 16 (Spring): 31-38.
Schafer, William J. 1995. "The Bridges of Fenton Johnson." Appalachian Journal 22 (Winter): 154-159.
Schneider, Edgar W. 2003. “Shakespeare in the Coves and Hollows? Toward a History of Southern English.” In English in the Southern United States, eds. S. Nagle, and S. Sanders, 17-35. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Seaton, Carter, Taylor. 2003. Father’s Trouble$ [fiction; Depression-era Huntington, W.Va.]. Huntington, W.Va.: Mid-Atlantic Highlands. 492 p.
Sebok, Scott J. 2002. “Wilma Dykeman: A Bibliography” [approx. 600 items, primary and secondary]. Appalachian Journal 29 (Summer): 460-492.
Secreast, Donald. 1996. “Donald Secreast.” Interview by Tal Stanley. Appalachian Journal 24 (Fall): 52-72.
Seliy, Shauna. 2007. When We Get There: A Novel [13-year-old boy’s coming-of-age; Eastern European immigrant mining community in 1974 Western Pa.]. New York: Bloomsbury. 259 pp.
Sellers, Bettie M. 2006 [1989]. Wild Ginger [poems]. Reprint. Kennesaw, Ga.: Kennesaw State University Press. 107 pp. Originally published: Atlanta: Morning Glory Ink.
Sellers, Bettie. 2002. “Dr. Bettie Sellers: Professor and Poet” [biography; Ga. Poet Laureate; Young Harris, Ga.]. Student interview by Lacey Watkins. Foxfire Magazine 36 (Spring/Summer): 44-57.
Settle, Mary Lee. 1995. Choices. New York: Doubleday. 384 pp.
Settle, Mary Lee. 2006 . “‘Roger Mary Lee Williams’.” Interview by Kate Long [excerpt from Kate Long’s 2002 radio program, In Their Own Country]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 83-89.
Settle, Mary Lee. 2006. “The Paris Review Years” [with George Plimpton]. Interview by Matthew J. Bruccoli; from a 2004 recording. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 90-95, and sidebar interview by Bruccoli, “‘Die of Sheer Joy with My Head on the Manuscript’,” 96-97
Settle, Mary Lee. 2006. “Barter” [excerpt from Learning to Fly: A Memoir (forthcoming from W. W. Norton)]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 41-54.
Settle, Mary Lee. 2007. Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir [1918-2005; biography continues Settle’s life story in 1938 where Addie (1998) left off]. Edited by Anne Hobson Freeman. New York: W.W. Norton. 224 pp.
Shade, Eric. 2003. Eyesores: Stories [Western Pa.; winner of Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction]. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 205 pp.
Shannon, Jeanne. 2002. Stars Scattered Like Seeds [poems and short story memoirs of Southwestern Va., 1936-56]. Albuquerque, N.M.: Wildflower Press. 176 pp.
Sharyn McCrumb Bibliography [38 entries]. 2004. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Fall): 16-18.
Sharyn McCrumb Bibliography [59 entries: books, uncollected fiction, essays/articles, interviews]. 2006. The Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 35-36.
Sharyn McCrumb Issue. 2006. Special issue, Iron Mountain Review 22 (Spring): 1-36.
Shelby, Anne. 2003. “Remembering Lee Howard (1952-2003)” [includes tribute by George Ella Lyon, and Howard’s poem “Momma’s Letter”]. Appalachian Journal 31 (Fall): 4-9.
Shelby, Anne. 2006. Appalachian Studies: Poems [Ky.]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 103 pp.
Shipley, Vivian. 2002. When There Is No Shore [poems; Ky.]. Cincinnati, Ohio: Word Press. 101 pp.
Shipley, Vivian. 2003. Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems [Hardin Co., Ky., native]. Hammond, La.: Louisiana Literary Press. 187 pp.
Shippen, Jane R. 2003. “Dirt and Sin in the Poetry of Michael McFee: A Sermon.” The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 9-14.
Shook, Tonya Holmes. 2005. The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shanty Boat People. Spokane, Wash.: Marquette Books. 311 pp.
Simmons, Gordon. 2006. “A Mary Lee Settle Bibliography” [23 books, 1954-2004]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 98-102.
Simmons, Gordon. 2007. “Maillard” [author Keith Maillard; review essay]. Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 10: 43-44.
Simms, Dianna. 1998. Obscene Notions [mystery; W.Va.]. Huntington, W.Va.: University Editions. 163 pp.
Simms, William Gilmore. 2001. The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms [1806-1870]. Edited by John Caldwell Guilds. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 412 pp.
Simo, Melanie Louise. 2005. “The Southern Highlands.” Chap. 2 in Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land Before Earth Day 1970, by M. Simo, 35-55.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Simpson, Nancy, and Shirley Uphouse, eds. 2003. Lights in the Mountains: Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Introduction by Fred Chappell. Hayesville, N.C.: Winding Path. 132 pp.
Singleton, George. 2006. Drowning in Gruel [19 tales set in fictitious Gruel, S.C.]. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt. 307 pp.
Singleton, George. 2007. Work Shirts for Madmen [fiction; S.C.]. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt. 317 pp.
Sites, James N. 1998. America: The Search and the Secret: A Novel [autobiographical; Depression-era Ohio River Valley]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 256 pp.
Sizemore, Judy. 2007. Asymmetry [28 poems]. Louisville, Ky.: Motes. 61 pp.
Skipper, Roger Alan. 2006. Tear Down the Mountain: An Appalachian Love Story [debut novel; Monroe Co., W.Va.; rough romance in a rocky landscape]. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press. 208 pp.
Sloan, Bob. 2003. Bearskin to Holly Fork: Stories from Appalachia [true stories of Midland, Ky., characters by a sometime Public Radio commentator]. Introduction by Lee Smith. Lexington, Ky.: Wind Publications. 135 pp.
Sloan, Bob. 2004. Home Call [fiction; Ky.; drug traffic]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 205 pp.
Sloan, Bob. 2006. Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees [murder mystery; Ky.; sequel to Home Call (2004)]. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications. 208 pp.
Slone, Ken. 2001. At Home in the Mountains: Poems [Ky.]. Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation. 128 pp.
Slone, Verna Mae. 1994. Rennie’s Way [all-but-memoir story; 1920s-30s Eastern Ky.; mountain life, dialect]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 232 pp.
Smith, Barbara, and Kirk Judd, eds. 2000. Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999 [anthology; 132 poets]. Huntington, W.Va.: Publishers Place. 432 pp.
Smith, Barbara. 2001. The Circumstance of Death [fiction]. Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press. 212 pp.
Smith, Barbara. 2003. “In Retrospect—Albert Stewart.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Fall): 399-405.
Smith, Barbara. 2003. “In Memoriam: Al Stewart, Poet of Yellow Mountain” [1914-2001; Knott Co., Ky.; founder and editor of Appalachian Heritage]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Winter-Spring): 136-141.
Smith, Barbara. 2006. Demonstrative Pronouns [50 poems]. Shinnston, W.Va.: Mountainechoes.com Books. 70 pp.
Smith, Barbara. 2007. “Albert Stewart, Patron Saint of Appalachian Writers (1914-2001)” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 3 (Summer): 9-14. See also, “An Albert Stewart Bibliography” [12 items], 16.
Smith, Daniel, Edwina Pendarvis, and Philip St. Clair. 1997. Human Landscapes: Three Books of Poems [Home Land, by Daniel Smith; Joy Ride, by Edwina Pendarvis; Acid Creek, by Philip St. Clair]. Working Lives Series. Huron, Oh.: Bottom Dog Press. 184 pp.
Smith, Deborah. 2001. On Bear Mountain: A Novel [north Ga.; romance]. Boston: Little, Brown. 342 pp.
Smith, Deborah. 2006. The Crossroads Café [fiction/contemporary romance; Blue Ridge N.C.]. Smyrna, Ga.: BelleBooks. 348 pp.
Smith, Katherine. 2003. Argument by Design [poems]. Washington, D.C.: Washington Writers’ Publishing House. 57 pp.
Smith, Larry R. 1992. Steel Valley Postcards & Letters [Upper Ohio Valley towns; poems]. Youngstown, Ohio: Pig Iron Press. 62 pp.
Smith, Larry R. 1995. Beyond Rust [Beyond rust: a novella -- In the shadows of steel mills: personal essays -- River of steel: stories]. Working Dog Series. Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press. 156 pp.
Smith, Larry R. 2006. Faces and Voices: Tales [27 stories; characters; Ohio]. Huron, Ohio: Bird Dog Publishing. 134 pp.
Smith, Larry. 2002. Milldust and Roses: Memoirs [poetry and prose; Upper Ohio Valley steel towns]. Roseville, Mich.: Ridgeway Press. 149 pp.
Smith, Larry. 2006. A River Remains [poems; Upper Ohio Valley]. Cincinnati, Ohio: WordTech Communications. 236 pp.
Smith, Lee, and Kathryn Stripling Byer. 2002. “Singing the Mountains: A Conversation” [interview recorded at the Kathryn Stripling Byer Literary Festival, Emory & Henry College, Oct. 19, 2001]. The Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 30-38.
Smith, Lee. 1994 [1968]. The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 180 pp.
Smith, Lee. 1995. Saving Grace. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 273 pp.
Smith, Lee. 1997. News of the Spirit [six stories; previously published]. New York: Putnam. 320 pp.
Smith, Lee. 1997. The Christmas Letters: A Novella. New York: Algonquin. 128 pp.
Smith, Lee. 2001. Conversations With Lee Smith [transcripts of 14 interviews, 1983-1997]. Edited by Linda Tate. Literary Conversation Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 195 pp.
Smith, Lee. 2002. “Confessions of a Stay Moron” [in praise of Ozark novelist Donald Harington]. Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 20-22.
Smith, Lee. 2002. The Last Girls: A Novel [former college roommates reunite on a trip down the Mississippi]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 384 pp.
Smith, Lee. 2003. “Big Girl” [beginning portion of a previously unpublished novella]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Winter): 36-43.
Smith, Lee. 2004. “Return to Ship Island” [influence of writer Elizabeth Spencer]. Southern Review 40 (Winter): 153-157.
Smith, Lee. 2006. “Interview with Lee Smith.” By Susan Ketchin. In All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, eds. W. Reed, and J. Horne, 154-167. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Smith, Lee. 2006. On Agate Hill: A Novel [Wilkes Co., N.C.: “portrait of a fiery Southern woman recalls the South from Reconstruction to the Roaring Twenties”]. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books. 367 pp.
Smith, Lee. Papers of Lee Marshall Smith. Manuscript Collection No. 203. Special Collections Department, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh. 28 pp. Accessed 12 Oct. 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu: 80/archives/collections/html/smith.html.
Smith, Newton. 2004. “Words to Raise the Dead: The Poetry of Ron Rash.” The Iron Mountain Review 20 (Spring): 13-20.
Smith, Noel. 2008. The Well String [poems]. Foreword by Silas House. Louisville, Ky.: Motes Books. 137 pp.
Smith, R. T. 2003. The Hollow Log Lounge: Poems [Opelika, Ala., community portrait through bar patrons’ voices]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 68 pp.
Smith, R. T. 2004. Brightwood: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 64 pp.
Smith, R. T. 2006. Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories [15 monologues]. Yellow Shoe Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 142 pp.
Smith, R. T. 2007. Outlaw Style: Poems. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 109 pp.
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Stewart, Kevin. 2001. “How to Write West Virginian” [biographical satire from an award-winning W.Va. writer]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Summer): 12-15.
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Still, James, with illustrations by Paul Brett Johnson. 1998. An Appalachian Mother Goose [juvenile literature]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 55 pp.
Still, James. 1999. “Correspondence from James Still to Dayton Kohler (1940-59): A Research Note” [critic]. Edited by Edward L. Tucker. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 97 (Winter): 113-122.
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Taylor, Henry. 2006. Crooked Run: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 62 pp.
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Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue. 2007. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 1-73. Includes seventeen of the previous twenty authors annually showcased, as panelists in this issue of Emory & Henry’s Literary Festival proceedings: Lisa Alther, Maggie Anderson, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Jo Carson, Fred Chappell, John Ehle, Denise Giardina, David Huddle, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Daniel Marion, Sharyn McCrumb, Michael McFee, Robert Morgan, Gurney Norman, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, and Meredith Sue Willis.
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West, Robert M. 2002. “‘That Has a Ring to It’: Song in the Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer. The Iron Mountain Review 18 (Spring): 16-23.
West, Robert M. 2003. “‘To Make You See’: Michael McFee’s Poems About Photographs.” The Iron Mountain Review 19 (Spring): 15-22.
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Wheeler, Billy Edd. 2008. “Sometimes Life, Sometimes Love, Is Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 1 (Winter): 9-16. Featured Author–Wheeler; unpublished memoir selections.
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Whited, Lana. 2003. “‘Based on a True-Story’: Using The Ballad of Frankie Silver to Teach the Conventions of Narrative” [c. 1998]. In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 33-50. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
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Whorton, James. 2003. Approximately Heaven: A Novel [redneck fiction picaresque; Tenn., Miss.]. New York: Free Press. 230 pp.
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Wikinson, Crystal. 2007. “An Exchange with Crystal Wilkinson.” Interview by Morris A. Grubbs. Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): View section. 5200 words. http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/view/index.html. Previously published in Appalachian Heritage.
Wilding, Glenna Whiteaker. 2002. Tales of a Ridgerunner: The Adventures of a Young Family Growing Up in the East Tennessee Mountains, 1890s-1920s [stories]. Prospect, Ky.: Harmony House. 157 pp.
Wildsmith, Dana. 1995. Alchemy: Poems. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Chapbook. 32 pp.
Wildsmith, Dana. 1999. Our Bodies Remember: Poems. Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press. 48 pp.
Williams, Debra. 2008. “Haun Family Ways.” Appalachian Heritage 36, no. 2 (Spring): 27-28. Featured Author–Mildred Haun (1911-1966).
Williams, Jonathan. 2000. Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, and Photography [“another celebration of Outsiderdom”]. New York: Turtle Point Press. 243 pp.
Williams, Jonathan. 2005. Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press. 304 pp.
Williams, Philip Lee. 1993. Blue Crystal [fiction thriller; Ky. cave country]. New York: Grove Press. 277 pp.
Williams, William G. 2002. The Coal King’s Slaves: A Coal Miner’s Story: A Historical Novel [trapped miner; 19th century anthracite mine]. Shippensburg, Pa.: Burd Street Press. 238 pp.
Williamson, J. W. 1996. "'Go Ahead On': An Interview with Gurney Norman." Southern Quarterly 34 (Spring): 8-20.
Williamson, J. W. 2002. “Notes on The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks” [novel by Donald Harington (Little, Brown, 1975)]. Southern Quarterly 40 (Winter): 66-68.
Willis, Meredith Sue (moderator), with Lisa Alther, Jo Carson, John Ehle. 2007. “History, Politics, Social Conscience and the Appalachian Writer” [panel discussion]. The Iron Mountain Review 23 (Spring): 12-17.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 1994. "Barbara Kingsolver, Moving On." Appalachian Journal 22 (Fall): 78-87.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 1994. In the Mountains of America. San Francisco: Mercury House. 171 pp.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 1996. "Witness in the Nightmare Country: Jayne Anne Phillips." Appalachian Journal 24 (Fall): 44-51.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 1997. Trespassers [third novel in Blair Morgan trilogy]. Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. 274 pp.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 1998. “The Ballads of Sharyn McCrumb” [If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990); The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1992); She Walks These Hills (1995); The Rosewood Casket (1996)]. Appalachian Journal 25 (Spring): 320-329.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2000. “A Book with a View: Between the Flowers Opens a Window to Appalachian Writing” [Harriette Simpson Arnow’s 1930s novel, published 1999]. Southern Exposure 28 (Spring/Summer): 60-61.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2002. Oradell at Sea [fiction; W.Va.]. Morgantown: Vandalia Press (West Virginia University Press). 208 pp.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2004. “Keith Maillard: Five Novels of Raysburg, West Virginia” [i.e., Wheeling; review essay of Alex Driving South (1980), Light in the Company of Women (1993), Hazard Zones (1995), Gloria (1999), The Clarinet Polka (2002)]. Appalachian Journal 31 (Spring/Summer): 358-366.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2004. Dwight’s House and Other Stories [five stories]. Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. 189 pp.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2005. “Examining the Truth about Women’s Lives in Appalachia: The Fiction of Gretchen Moran Laskas.” Appalachian Heritage 33, no. 1 (Winter): 19-27.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2006. “The Clam Shell: Opening to Life with Resolute Passion” [Mary Lee Settle’s Literary Legacy]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 1 (Winter): 73-77.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2006. “On the Road with C. T. Savage” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 16-28.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2006. “From A Space Apart to Oradell at Sea” [(1979) to (2002); small town W.Va. reflections; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 34, no. 4 (Fall): 33-45.
Willis, Meredith Sue. 2007. “Meredith Sue at Ease: In Interview with the Author of Oradell at Sea” [Vandalia Press, 2002]. By Belinda Anderson. Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 10: 40-41.
Willoughby, Ron. 2007. “‘The Nest’: Images of Lost Intimacy” [short story]. In James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature, eds. T. Olson and K. Olson, 103-106. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Reprinted from The Poetics of Appalachian Space, ed. Parks Lanier, 95-101 (University of Tennessee Press, 1991).
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Winkler, Gary S. 2007. Prince of the Apple Towns. Philadelphia, Pa.: Xlibris. 192 pp. Fiction; 1960s Sawmill, W.Va.
Winter, Dennis C. 2002. “Stones in My Passway: Ellen Chesser’s Country Blues and the Stone Imagery in The Time of Man [by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: Viking, 1926)]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Summer): 41-45.
Winter, Jonah. 2008. Steel Town. Illustrations by Terry Widener. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 40 pp., unnumbered. Children’s picture book; 1930s Pittsburgh and Mon Valley immigrants.
Wisler, G. Clifton. 2002. King’s Mountain [1780 battle, N.C./S.C.; young adult fiction; coming-of-age]. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 160 pp.
Witt, Lana. 1996. Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones. [fiction] New York: Scribner. 416 pp.
Wolfe, R. Dietz. 2007. “From the Nephew of American Writer Thomas Wolfe” [93-years-old; summer 1937 visit; Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (Fall): 59-60.
Wolfe, Thomas, and Margaret Roberts. 2007. Windows of the Heart: The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts [70 letters and postcards]. Edited by Ted Mitchell. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 201 pp.
Wolfe, Thomas, and Maxwell E. Perkins. 2000. To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence [251 letters]. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker. Columbia: University of South Carolina. 512 pp.
Wolfe, Thomas. 2000 [1941]. The Hills Beyond. Reprint. Voices of the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 368 pp. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers.
Wolfe, Thomas. 2000. O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life [the original unabridged version of Look Homeward, Angel (1929)]. Text established by Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 694 pp.
Wolfe, Thomas. 2004. The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel [b. 1900, d. 1938]. Edited, with and introduction, by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy. Southern Literary Studies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 99 pp.
Wolfe, Thomas. 2004. Thomas Wolfe’s Civil War [central in his life and writing; anthology]. Edited by David Madden. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 214 pp.
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Wolfe, Thomas. 2008 [1934]. The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version [“including the original short story”]. Edited by Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 92 pp.
Wolfe, Thomas. 2008. The Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 134 pp.
Wolfram, Walt. 2003. “Enclave Dialect Communities in the South” [Appalachia, N.C., Chesapeake Bay]. In English in the Southern United States, eds. S. Nagle, and S. Sanders, 141-158. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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Woodrell, Daniel. 2001. The Death of Sweet Mister: A Novel [Ozarks setting]. New York: Putnam’s. 196 pp.
Woodrell, Daniel. 2006. Winter’s Bone: A Novel [Ozarks poverty and drugs; 16-year-old heroine]. New York: Little, Brown. 193 pp.
Woodside, Jane Harris. 2001. “Balancing Act: An Interview with Silas House” [author of Clay’s Quilt (2001); sidebar book review by Genie Jacobson]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Summer): 22-26.
Woodson, Jacqueline. 1999. Lena [young adult fiction; Ohio, Ky.; sequel to I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This (1994)]. New York: Delacorte Press.
Woolsey, Linda Mills. 2003. “‘Serpentine Chain’: Love, Loss, and Remembrance in She Walks These Hills” [1994]. In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 23-32. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Woolsey, Linda Mills. 2003. “The Songcatcher: ‘Cosmic Possums’ on the Appalachian Song Path” [c. 2001]. In From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb, ed. K. Holloway, 169-178. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.
Worthington, Marianne. 2000. Review essay of Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley, by Elaine Fowler Palencia (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000). Appalachian Heritage 28 (Spring): 66-70.
Worthington, Marianne. 2002. “Nothing Must Be Lost: Regional Identity and Dialogue in the Works of Edwina Pendarvis and Llewellyn McKernan” [W.Va. poets]. Appalachian Heritage 30 (Spring): 7-19.
Worthington, Marianne. 2003. “A Selected Bibliography” [of Jeff Daniel Marion; 60 entries, primary and secondary]. Appalachian Heritage 31 (Fall): 42-45.
Worthington, Marianne. 2003. “Epistolary Exchanges: The Personal and Poetic Journey of Jeff Daniel Marion in Letters Home” [Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press, 2001]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Fall): 406-414.
Worthington, Marianne. 2003. “Jeff Daniel Marion’s ‘Homestead’: Where All Our Words Grow Warm.” Appalachian Heritage 31 (Fall): 16-20.
Worthington, Marianne. 2003. “Reaching Kids Where They Live: Appalachian Artist and Storyteller Paul Brett Johnson” [Ky. author of Old Dry Frye (1999) and Jack Outwits the Giants (2002)]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20 (Spring): 31-34.
Worthington, Marianne. 2004. “‘Pleasure Out of Telling’: Voice Poems in George Ella Lyon’s Fiction for Adults” [narrative technique; Choices: Stories for Adult New Readers (1989); With a Hammer for My Heart (1997)]. Appalachian Journal 32 (Fall): 100-113.
Worthington, Marianne. 2005. “Witness to the Local” [profile of Stephen Marion, author of Hollow Ground (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002); Jefferson Co., Tenn., setting, fictionalized]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 21, no. 1 (Spring): 23-25. Excerpt from Hollow Ground, 26-29.
Worthington, Marianne. 2006. Larger Bodies Than Mine: Poems [Ky.]. New Women’s Voices Series, no. 43. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press. 30 pp.
Worthington, Marianne. 2007. “‘Be my inscape, be my lyre’: The Hymnody of Albert Stewart” [Featured Author]. Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 3 (Summer): 25-31.
Worthington, Marianne. 2008. Review essay of Strange As This Weather Has Been, by Ann Pancake (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). Appalachian Journal 35, no. 4 (Summer): 372-377.
Wright, Charles. 1998. Appalachia [poems]. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 67 pp.
Wright, Charles. 2000. “An Interview with Charles Wright.” By Ted Genoways. Southern Review 36 (Spring): 442-452.
Wright, Charles. 2002. A Short History of the Shadow [36 poems]. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. 79 pp.
Wright, Charles. 2004. Buffalo Yoga [poems]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 76 pp.
Wright, Charles. 2005. “Appalachian Autumn” [long, meditative, free verse poem]. American Scholar 74 (Autumn): 75-83.
Wright, Charles. 2007. Littlefoot [poems: nature, seasons, mortality]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 91 pp.
Wright, Charles. 2008. Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006. Edited by Robert D. Denham. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 175 pp.
Wright, James Arlington. 2005. A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright [poet, 1927-1980; beginning in 1946 in his hometown of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio]. Edited by Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 633 pp.
Wrigley, Robert, introd. 2000. “Buck & Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000.” Special issue, Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 50 (Spring): 1-232. Afterword by R. T. Smith. [poems contributed by 67 poets including Wendell Berry, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Fred Chappell, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Morgan, George Scarbrough, and Charles Wright].
York, Bill. 2003. John Fox, Jr.: Appalachian Author [1863-1919; scholarly biography]. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 6. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 316 pp.
York, Lynn. 2007. The Sweet Life [popular fiction: Christian, grandmothers, 1980s N.C.; sequel to The Piano Teacher (2004)]. New York: Plume. 290 pp.
Youmans, Marly. 2003. The Curse of the Raven Mocker [adolescent fiction; fantasy based on Cherokee mythology; Great Smoky Mountains]. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 279 pp.
Youmans, Marly. 2005. Ingledove [supernatural; adolescent fiction; Great Smoky Mts.]. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. 197 pp.
Young, Stephen Flinn. 1996. Review essay of The Plow Reader: Selections from an Appalachian Alternative Newsmagazine of the Late 1970's, ed. Ann F. Richman (Abingdon, Va.: Sow’s Ear Press). In Appalachian Journal 24 (Fall): 106-109.
Ziesk, Edra. 2008. The Trespasser: A Novel. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press. 274 pp. Ky.; outsider; violence.
Zinnia Tales, The [short stories about Appalachian women; 15 authors]. 2006. Bristol, Va.: Mountain Girl Press. 185 pp.
Zuber, Isabel. 2002. Salt [first novel; 1877-1932 Western N.C.]. New York: Picador. 349 pp.