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Joe Survant
He was born in Owenboro. After graduating from the University of Kentucky and the University of Delaware, he went on to teach at Western Kentucky University. His poems have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies. His most recent work Anne & Alpheus published in 1996 is a collection of sixty-four dramatic monologues, and won the 1995 Arkansas Poetry Award.
Mildred Haun
She was born in Hamblen County, Tennessee, to a large family who were primarily farmers. In 1931 she enetered Vanderbilt University where as an undergraduate she met and was encouraged to write fiction by John Crowe Ransom and later By Donald Davidson. She completed most of her fiction writing before she had reached the age of thirty. In 1937, she compiled the traditional ballards and songs of Cooke County, and in 1940 published The Hawk's Done Gone, a family chronicle told from the point of view of a mountain midwife. She used her Appalachian background to write about life in the mountains.
Doris Betts
Doris Betts was born in Statesville, North Carolina in 1932. She attended Chapel Hill University in Orange County, North Carolina. Just that little piece of information has a tie with the story, that being that Granville, Mrs. Carrie’s atheist 23 year old nephew, attended Chapel Hill University in the short story. Betts taught English for thirty years at the University of North Carolina. In her life, she wrote and published six novels and three collections of short stories. Throughout her life, Betts was very sensible in her religious faith, and had/asked many questions that she often mentioned, subtly or obviously, in her writings. In her short story, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold, she is talking about having a lot of scripture memorized because of her mother, when she says “Some days I hoped this made more sense to atheists than it did to me.” (page 122, Betts, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold) It is obvious to see, just through her writings, how religion took a large role in her life, and really inspired her writings. In fact, when asked why she became a writer, her response was “Oh, Bible stories, without question. It makes you feel that the ordinary is not ordinary.”(Vitello Paul, The New York Times) In All That Glitters Isn’t Gold, the narrator experiences arguments between Granville and his Aunt, Miss Carrie, who is accompanied by the narrator’s mother usually. Granville is an atheist and Miss Carrie and her company are very strict christians, and they cannot stand the fact that Granville is an atheist. Throughout the story, the narrator just sits and listens, “Not until they called me twice would I go indoors. I said nothing about that fish wearing it’s colors of Halloween.” (page 133, Betts, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold) which shows Betts views on believing in a God or not, that you cannot persuade someones decision, that they simply see it or they don’t.
Jesse Stuart:
Jesse Stuart was born in W-Hollow in Greenup County, the son of an illiterate tenant farmer. He graduated from Lincoln Memorial University in 1929 and attended graduate school at Vanderbilt University. In the early 1930’s, Stuart returned home to teach and administer schools. His success as a writer allowed him to quit teaching and eventually purchase the land on which his father farmed. Jesse Stuart was enormously prolific, writing over sixty works including poetry, stories and novels, as well as biography and autobiography. Man With a Bull-tongue Plow (1934), a volume containing over 700 sonnets, is generally considered the work which launched his career as a writer.
Joseph S. Cotter Jr.
Joseph S. Cotter Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky and was a very talented poet. From a young age Cotter would always appreciate life and its meaning to him. Being the son of another poet, journalist and community developer, he got basically a head start on the way of a writer’s life. He graduated Louisville's Central High school in 1911 and then attended Fisk University for 2 years, till he was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. He died at the age of 23.Cotter shows that he really enjoyed the Appalachians in both poems I have analyzed. From what I have researched about this particular author it seems to me that he loved when he was growing up. When he went away to college he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and to him he would give anything to be in his sweet home again since times were tough for him.
He was born in Owenboro. After graduating from the University of Kentucky and the University of Delaware, he went on to teach at Western Kentucky University. His poems have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies. His most recent work Anne & Alpheus published in 1996 is a collection of sixty-four dramatic monologues, and won the 1995 Arkansas Poetry Award.
Mildred Haun
She was born in Hamblen County, Tennessee, to a large family who were primarily farmers. In 1931 she enetered Vanderbilt University where as an undergraduate she met and was encouraged to write fiction by John Crowe Ransom and later By Donald Davidson. She completed most of her fiction writing before she had reached the age of thirty. In 1937, she compiled the traditional ballards and songs of Cooke County, and in 1940 published The Hawk's Done Gone, a family chronicle told from the point of view of a mountain midwife. She used her Appalachian background to write about life in the mountains.
Doris Betts
Doris Betts was born in Statesville, North Carolina in 1932. She attended Chapel Hill University in Orange County, North Carolina. Just that little piece of information has a tie with the story, that being that Granville, Mrs. Carrie’s atheist 23 year old nephew, attended Chapel Hill University in the short story. Betts taught English for thirty years at the University of North Carolina. In her life, she wrote and published six novels and three collections of short stories. Throughout her life, Betts was very sensible in her religious faith, and had/asked many questions that she often mentioned, subtly or obviously, in her writings. In her short story, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold, she is talking about having a lot of scripture memorized because of her mother, when she says “Some days I hoped this made more sense to atheists than it did to me.” (page 122, Betts, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold) It is obvious to see, just through her writings, how religion took a large role in her life, and really inspired her writings. In fact, when asked why she became a writer, her response was “Oh, Bible stories, without question. It makes you feel that the ordinary is not ordinary.”(Vitello Paul, The New York Times) In All That Glitters Isn’t Gold, the narrator experiences arguments between Granville and his Aunt, Miss Carrie, who is accompanied by the narrator’s mother usually. Granville is an atheist and Miss Carrie and her company are very strict christians, and they cannot stand the fact that Granville is an atheist. Throughout the story, the narrator just sits and listens, “Not until they called me twice would I go indoors. I said nothing about that fish wearing it’s colors of Halloween.” (page 133, Betts, All That Glitters Isn’t Gold) which shows Betts views on believing in a God or not, that you cannot persuade someones decision, that they simply see it or they don’t.
Jesse Stuart:
Jesse Stuart was born in W-Hollow in Greenup County, the son of an illiterate tenant farmer. He graduated from Lincoln Memorial University in 1929 and attended graduate school at Vanderbilt University. In the early 1930’s, Stuart returned home to teach and administer schools. His success as a writer allowed him to quit teaching and eventually purchase the land on which his father farmed. Jesse Stuart was enormously prolific, writing over sixty works including poetry, stories and novels, as well as biography and autobiography. Man With a Bull-tongue Plow (1934), a volume containing over 700 sonnets, is generally considered the work which launched his career as a writer.
Joseph S. Cotter Jr.
Joseph S. Cotter Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky and was a very talented poet. From a young age Cotter would always appreciate life and its meaning to him. Being the son of another poet, journalist and community developer, he got basically a head start on the way of a writer’s life. He graduated Louisville's Central High school in 1911 and then attended Fisk University for 2 years, till he was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. He died at the age of 23.Cotter shows that he really enjoyed the Appalachians in both poems I have analyzed. From what I have researched about this particular author it seems to me that he loved when he was growing up. When he went away to college he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and to him he would give anything to be in his sweet home again since times were tough for him.