Kentucky literature - Wikipedia Kentucky literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is part of a series on the Culture of the United States of America Society History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion Arts and literature Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater Other Cuisine Festivals Folklore Media Newspapers Radio Cinema TV Internet Pornography Mythology Sport Symbols Flag Great Seal Monuments Motto Anthem Bird World Heritage Sites United States portal v t e The literature of Kentucky, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Lane Allen, Wendell Berry, Theodore O'Hara, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren.[1] Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External links History[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 2017) A printing press began operating in Lexington in 1787.[2] Writers of the antebellum period included Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867).[3] The prolific Southern writer Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) wrote his first novel Night Rider (1939) based on the Kentucky-Tennessee Black Patch Tobacco Wars.[4] See also[edit] Category:Writers from Kentucky List of newspapers in Kentucky Category:Kentucky in fiction Category:Libraries in Kentucky Southern United States literature American literary regionalism References[edit] ^ Federal Writers' Project 1939. ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext) ^ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South. ^ Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8. Bibliography[edit] Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Kentucky". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 191 – via HathiTrust. Elsie Dershem (1921). "Kentucky". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive. Federal Writers' Project (1939), "The Arts: Literature", Kentucky, American Guide Series, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pp. 121–125, OCLC 498232 – via Internet Archive G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Kentucky literature) David Burg (1992). "Literature". In John E. Kleber (ed.). Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 560–562. ISBN 0-8131-2883-8. Jane Gentry Vance (2001). "Literature of Kentucky". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 396–403. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9. External links[edit] United for Libraries. "Literary Landmarks by State: Kentucky". 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