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Authors: Sandra L. Ballard
Rumors, from
Red Woman With Backward Eyes
from
In the Tennessee Mountains
Briers, from
Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley
In the Kitchen We String Beans
Clarissa and the Second Coming
from
Singing Family of the Cumberlands
from
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States
Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair
The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk
from
What My Heart Wants to Tell
And This Is The Way To Be Poor
My Boy Elroy, from
In the Mountains of America
from The Raising,
From the Bottom Up
HRONOLOGY OF
W
ORKS
A
NNE
N
EWPORT
R
OYALL
from
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners
â¦(1826)
R
EBECCA
H
ARDING
D
AVIS
from
Life in the Iron Mills
(1861)
M
ARY
N
OAILLES
M
URFREE
from
In the Tennessee Mountains
(1884)
F
RANCES
C
OURTENAY
B
AYLOR
from
Behind the Blue Ridge
(1887)
W
ILL
A
LLEN
D
ROMGOOLE
from
The Heart of Old Hickory
(1895)
S
ARAH
B
ARNWELL
E
LLIOTT
from
The Durket Sperret
(1898)
E
MMA
B
ELL
M
ILES
from
The Spirit of the Mountains
(1905)
C
ORRA
H
ARRIS
from
A Circuit Rider's Wife
(1910)
M
ARY
J
OHNSTON
from
The Long Roll
(1911)
L
UCY
F
URMAN
from
Sight to the Blind
(1914)
A
NN
C
OBB
from
Kinfolks: Kentucky Mountain Rhymes
(1922)
E
DITH
S
UMMERS
K
ELLEY
from
Weeds
(1923)
M
ARY
H
ARRIS
“M
OTHER
” J
ONES
from
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
(1925)
E
LIZABETH
M
ADOX
R
OBERTS
from
The Time of Man
(1926)
A
NNE
W. A
RMSTRONG
from
This Day and Time
(1930)
O
LIVE
T
ILFORD
D
ARGAN
[F
IELDING
B
URKE
]
from
Call Home the Heart
(1932)
G
RACE
L
UMPKIN
from
To Make My Bread
(1932)
M
URIEL
E
ARLEY
S
HEPPARD
from
Cabins in the Laurel
(1935)
M
ILDRED
H
AUN
from
The Hawk's Done Gone
(1940)
H
ARRIETTE
S
IMPSON
A
RNOW
from
Hunter's Horn
(1949)
S
YLVIA
T
RENT
A
UXIER
from
Love-Vine
(1953)
J
ANE
M
ERCHANT
from
The Greatest of These
(1954)
W
ILMA
D
YKEMAN
from
The French Broad
(1955)
J
EAN
R
ITCHIE
from
Singing Family of the Cumberlands
(1955)
J
ANICE
H
OLT
G
ILES
from
Hannah Fowler
(1956)
H
ARRIETTE
S
IMPSON
A
RNOW
from
Seedtime on the Cumberland
(1960)
H
EATHER
R
OSS
M
ILLER
from
The Edge of the Woods
(1964)
R
EBECCA
C
AUDILL
from
My Appalachia: A Reminiscence
(1966)
M
AY
J
USTUS
from
The Complete Peddler's Pack
(1966)
C
ATHERINE
M
ARSHALL
from
Christy
(1967)
J
ANE
S
TUART
from
Eyes of the Mole
(1967)
S
YLVIA
T
RENT
A
UXIER
from
With Thorn and Stone: New and Selected Poems
(1968)
M
ARY
H
ARRIS
“M
OTHER
”
JONES
from
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
(1925)
B
ENNIE
L
EE
S
INCLAIR
from
Little Chicago Suite
(1971)
L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL
from
Paradox Hill
(1972)
M
ARY
E
LIZABETH
W
ITHERSPOON
from
The Morning Cool
(1972)
W
ILMA
D
YKEMAN
from
Return the Innocent Earth
(1973)
J
ANE
S
TUART
from
White Barn
(1973)
L
ILLIE
D. C
HAFFIN
from
8th Day, 13th Moon
(1974)
A
NN
D
EAGON
from
Poetics South
(1974)
A
NNIE
D
ILLARD
from
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(1974)
V
IRGINIA
H
AMILTON
from
M.C. Higgins the Great
(1974)
A
NN
D
EAGON
from
Women and Children First
(1976)
T
RUDA
W
ILLIAMS
M
C
C
OY
from
The McCoys
(1976)
M
URIEL
M
ILLER
D
RESSLER
from
Appalachia
(1977)
S
YLVIA
W
ILKINSON
from
Shadow of the Mountain
(1977)
M
ARILOU
A
WIAKTA
from
Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet
(1978)
B
ETSY
S
HOLL
from
Appalachian Winter
(1978)
B
ENNIE
L
EE
S
INCLAIR
from
The Arrowhead Scholar
(1978)
H
ILDA
D
OWNER
from
Bandana Creek
(1979)
V
ERNA
M
AE
S
LONE
from
What My Heart Wants to Tell
(1979)
L
EE
H
OWARD
from
The Last Unmined Vein
(1980)
L
ILY
M
AY
L
EDFORD
from
Coon Creek Girl
(1980)
B
ETTIE
S
ELLERS
from
The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk
(1981)
D
ORIS
D
AVENPORT
from
eat thunder & drink rain
(1982)
P
AULETTA
H
ANSEL
from
Appalachian Journal
(1982)
J
ANICE
T
OWNLEY
M
OORE
from
Southern Humanities Review
(1982)
M
ARY
L
EE
S
ETTLE
from
The Killing Ground
(1982)
A
NN
D
EAGON
Broadside (1983)
S
IDNEY
S
AYLOR
F
ARR
from
More than Moonshine
(1983)
L
LEWELLYN
M
C
K
ERNAN
from
Short and Simple Annals
(1983)
L
EIGH
A
LLISON
W
ILSON
from The Raising,
From The Bottom Up
(1983)
Lou V.P. C
RABTREE
Homer-Snake, from
Sweet Hollow
(1984)
E
LLESA
C
LAY
H
IGH
from
Past Titan Rock
(1984)
J
ANICE
T
OWNLEY
M
OORE
from
Negative Capability
(1984)
J
AYNE
A
NNE
P
HILLIPS
from
Machine Dreams
(1984)
S
UE
E
LLEN
B
RIDGERS
from
Sara Will
(1985)
L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL
from
Appalachian Heritage
(1985)
J
ANICE
T
OWNLEY
M
OORE
from
Southern Humanities Review
(1985)
J
ANE
S
TUART
from
Transparencies
(1985)
B
ETTIE
S
ELLERS
from
Liza's Monday and Other Poems
(1986)
L
ILLIE
D.
CHAFFIN
from
Appalachian Heritage
(1987)
D
ENISE
G
IARDINA
from
Storming Heaven
(1987)
G
AIL
G
ODWIN
from
A Southern Family
(1987)
R
ITA
S
IMS
Q
UILLEN
from
October Dusk
(1987)
B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER
from
The Bean Trees
(1988)
B
ELINDA
A
NN
M
ASON
The Gifts of the Spirit
(1988)
L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL
from
The Milkweed Ladies
(1988)
H
ARRIETTE
S
IMPSON
A
RNOW
The First Ride from
Appalachian Heritage
(1989)
J
O
C
ARSON
from
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
(1989)
C
ONNIE
J
ORDAN
G
REEN
from
The War at Home
(1989)
I
RENE
M
C
K
INNEY
from
Six O'Clock Mine Report
(1989)
C
ANDIE
C
ARAWAN
from
Sing for Freedom
(1990)
L
OLETTA
C
LOUSE
from
Wilder
(1990)
A
MY
T
IPTON
C
ORTNER
from
The Hillbilly Vampire
(1990)
L
ISA
K
OGER
from Extended Learning,
Farlanburg Stories
(1990)
H
EATHER
R
OSS
M
ILLER
from
Hard Evidence
(1990)
B
ENNIE
L
EE
S
INCLAIR
from
Lord of Springs
(1990)
A
RTIE
A
NN
B
ATES
Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift (1991)
J
O
C
ARSON
from
Daytrips
(1991)
D
ORIS
D
AVENPORT
from
voodoo chile: slight return
(1991)
A
NGELYN
D
E
B
ORD
from
Praise House
(1991)
L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL
from
Hill Daughter
(1991)
E
LLEN
H
ARVEY
S
HOWELL
from
Our Mountain
(1991)
E
FFIE
W
ALLER
S
MITH
from
The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith
(1991)
D
OROTHY
A
LLISON
