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West Virginia’s own Jayne Anne Phillips, won her first Pulitzer Prize on May 6, 2024, for her novel “Night Watch.” Born and raised in Buckhannon, she is an alumnae of WVU and loved growing up in the Mountain State. She still finds inspiration in Appalachia.

Event marks ACTC, MSU partnership

(TNS) From a writer who was one of the first chroniclers of the AIDS epidemic to one of American drama’s leading lights, this year’s inductees to the Kentucky Writers’ Hall

Linda Blackford: This year’s inductees include famous names from Broadway, children’s literature and Kentucky history.

By Steve FlairtyNKyTribune columnistKentucky has a rich literary and historical landscape, for sure. And across the state, there are frequent events that showcase such. Here are a few that are h

1951 — OKEY L. PATTESON, 23rd governor, chief creator of the West Virginia Turnpike.

CHARLESTON — Eight West Virginia literary figures were chosen through the inaugural West Virginia Literary Hall of Recognition Project on Aug. 6, including

Using the National Book Foundation website, Stacker looked at the 20 women who have won the National Book Award for fiction and listed them starting with the most recent winner.

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...