Harriette Arnow

University of North Carolina at Asheville D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections Harriette Arnow (1908-1996) Southern Appalachian Writers Collection M2005.05.01-04

Title	Harriette Arnow (1908-1986)
Creator	Southern Highlands Research Center
Alt. Creator	D. H. Ramsey Library
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/southern_appalachian_writers/arnow_harriette/arnow_harriette.htm
Subject Keyword	Harriette Arnow ; Southern Appalachian Writers ; Appalachia ;
Subject LCSH	Arnow, Harriette, 1908 - 1986 American literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History and criticism American literature -- Appalachian Mountains -- History and criticism Appalachians (People) in literature Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Frontier and pioneer life -- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. & Tenn.) Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Burnside (Ky.) -- History United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Michigan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Ohio -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description	The collection contains letters of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, book covers, and anecdotal information on the writer. In some instances, tapes of the author reading from their work is included. The collection was gathered as part of an exhibition of Southern Appalachian Writers held at UNCA in the early 1980's and sponsored by D. H. Ramsey Library and the Southern Highlands Research Center.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor	Annette Hatley
Date	2005-08-23
Type	Collection ; text ; photographs ; audio
Format	1 folder ; audio ; text ; image
Source	M2005.05.1-8
Language	English
Relation	Southern Appalachian Writers in "A Sense of Place, "The Heritage of Western North Carolina, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Coverage	1900's - present ; Kentucky ; Ohio ; Michigan ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Some materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for assistance from Special Collections staff.
Donor	240
Acquisition	2004-03-
Citation	Harriette Arnow in Southern Appalachian Writers Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by	Special Collections staff, 2005
Last update	2008-07-22
Statement on Writing	"Writing fiction is for me an attempt to get into words the imaginary sights, sounds, and thoughts of characters in my mind. I do not always succeed in the first or tenth try, though I sometimes spend hours over one short paragraph or sentence when the right word, the only word that will serve, eludes me. Other times my writing seems to be doing itself. Yet, too often, when reading the first typed work sheet, I find changes that should be made. "I know of writers who have no need to change a first version. They write rapidly and well. Alas, this slow worker does snot belong with such writers. Still, in spite of the agony of word hunting and rewriting, I enjoy the work and look forward to my daily stint. "I am unable to make any generalizations on writing done by others."
Biography	A native Kentuckian, Harriette Arnow (neé Simpson) was born 7 July 1908 in Wayne County. She was educated at Berea College (1924-1926), and the University of Louisville, where she received her BS in 1931. Upon leaving school, Arnow became a teacher, a profession she later quit to devote herself to writing. In 1939, she married a newspaperman, Harold B. Arnow. The couple moved to Michigan, where they raised two children. Arnow received wide acclaim for her writing, both fiction and nonfiction. She died in 1986, aged 77, at her farm in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Michigan State University Press brought out her previously unpublished second novel, Between the Flowers, in 1999, and The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow in 2005.
Bibliography	*BOOKS BY*
1936	Mountain Path. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.
1949	Hunter's Horn. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
1954	The Dollmaker. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
1960	Seedtime on the Cumberland. New York: Macmillan, 1960.
1963	Flowering of the Cumberland. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
1968	Some Musings on the Nature of History. Ann Arbor, MI: Historical Society of Michigan, 1968.
1970	The Weedkiller's Daughter. New York: Knopf, 1970.
1974	The Kentucky Trace. New York: Knopf, 1974.
1978	Old Burnside. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1978.
1999	Between the Flowers. Frederic Joseph Svoboda, ed. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State UP, 1999.
2005	The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow. Sandra L. Ballard & Haeja K. Chung, eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State UP, 2005.
	*BOOKS ABOUT*
1974	Harriette Arnow. Wilton Eckley. New York: Twayne, 1974.
	*ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ABOUT*
1975	"A Sense of Place: One Aspect of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Adams, Pauline. Midwestern Miscellany v. 3, 1-5.
1977	"Harriette Arnow's Mountain Women." Thorn, Arline R. Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers v. 4, #1, 1-9.
1978	"Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker: A Journey to Awareness." Lee, Dorothy H. Critique v. 20, #2, 92-98.
1979	"A Portrait of the Artist as Mother: Harriette Arnow and The Dollmaker." Hobbs, Glenda. Georgia Review v. 33, 851-866.
1981	"Silence and Captivity in Babylon: Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Malpezzi, Frances M. Southern Studies v. 20, #1 (Spring), 84-90.
1982	"The Terra Firma of Harriette Arnow's Fiction." Adams, Pauline. Midwestern Miscellany v. 10, 23-37. "Harriette Arnow and the 1980's." Wagner, Linda W. Great Lakes Review v. 8, #1 (Spring), 1-10. "A MELUS Interview: Harriette Arnow." Miller, Danny. MELUS v. 9, #2 (Summer), 83-97.
1983	"The Multi-Ethnic Community of Women in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Goodman, Charlotte. MELUS v. 10, #4 (Winter), 49-54. "Plantlore in the Early Fiction of Harriette Arnow." Malpezzi, Frances M. NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature v. 7, #3 (Winter), Item 20.
1984	"Hunter's Horn: Harriette Arnow's Subversive Hunting Tale." Walsh, Kathleen. Southern Literary Journal v. 17, #1 (Fall), 54-67.
1988	"The City in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Strickland, Carol Colclough. The Nassau Review v. 5, #4, 81-90.
1991	"The Demise of Mountain Life: Harriette Arnow's Analysis." Turner, Martha Billips. Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association v. 8, 37-42. "Agrarian Tragedy: Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Mooney, Steven. Appalachian Journal v. 19, #1 (Fall), 34-42.
1992	"Cain and Abel in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker: A Comment on War." Devers, James. Notes on Contemporary Literature v. 22, #3 (May) 4-5.
1994	"Criticism, a Mirror of Social Change: Harriette Arnow and Her Critics." Krasne, Betty. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association v. 6, 113-129.
1995	"For a Living Dog is Better Than a Dead Lion: Harriette Arnow as Religious Writer." Miller, Danny L. South Atlantic Review v. 60, #1 (Jan.), 29-42.
1997	"Beholden to No Man: Artistry and Community in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Groover, Kristina K. Kentucky Review v. 13, #3, 49-57.
1999	"The Commodity Culture and Other Historical Pressures in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Barry, Michael. Midamerica v. 26, 156-170.
2001	"Migration, Material Culture, and Identity in . . . Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker." Morgan, Stacy I. College English v. 63, #6 (July), 712-740.
2002	"Nothing but a Hound Dog: The Pursuit of Manhood in Harriette Arnow's Hunter's Horn." Robinson, Sherry. Kentucky Philological Review v. 16, 61-66.
2004	"Perchance to Dream: Harriette Arnow's Between the Flowers." Robinson, Sherry. Kentucky Philological Review v. 18, 22-27.