Arnow, Harriette Simpson (–)
American author of cultural histories, short stories, and novels, including The Dollmaker.Name variations: H. Arnow, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Harriette Simpson, H.L. Simpson. Born Harriette Louisa Simpson on July 7, , in Wayne County, Kentucky; died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 22, ; daughter of Elias Thomas Simpson (a teacher, farmer, and oil driller) and Millie Jane (Denney) Simpson (a teacher and homemaker); attended Berea College, –26; graduated University of Louisville, B.S., ; married Harold B. Arnow, on March 11, ; children: Marcella Jane Arnow ; Thomas Louis Arnow.
Published Mountain Path (); Hunter's Horn (); The Dollmaker (); Seedtime on the Cumberland (); Flowering of the Cumberland (). Given Berea College Centennial Award (); granted honorary degrees from Albion College (), Transylvania College (), and University of Kentucky (); given Outstanding Alumni award from University of Louisville, ().
Harriette Arnow's best novels grow out of the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, just as the author herself had her roots in those Appalachian hills. Her fiction, and the lives of the people in the region were, she said, shap
Arnow, Harriette (Louisa) Simpson
Born 7 July , Wayne County, Kentucky; died 22 March , Ann Arbor, Michigan
Also wrote under: H. Arnow, Harriette Simpson, H. L. Simpson
Daughter of Elias and Mollie Jane Denney Simpson; married Harold Arnow, ; children: Marcella, Thomas
Harriette Simpson Arnow's best fiction is rooted in Kentucky, her native ground. With both parents being descendants of original Kentucky settlers, Arnow grew up hearing family stories dating from the American Revolution. These kindled her desire to write fiction, and tell stories herself. She attended Berea College for two years, taught school for a year, then studied at the University of Louisville, where she received a B.S. degree in In an act her family viewed as scandalous, Arnow quit her job in and moved to a furnished room in downtown Cincinnati near the city library, resolving to read "the great novels" and to write. She supported herself with odd jobs and worked for the Federal Writers' Project. After her marriage to newspaperman Harold Arnow, she moved with him to a farm in southern Kentucky. They later settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in
Arnow received national attention in with two sh
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