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Larkspur Press
The Larkspur Press is a small letter-press publisher based in Monterey, Kentucky, United States, founded and operated by Gray Zeitz. They have published books by Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Baker Hall, Guy Davenport, Ed McClanahan Edward Poage McClanahan (October 5, 1932 – November 27, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and professor. Biography McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky on October 5, 1932, to Edward Leroy and Jessie (Poage) McClanahan. He attend ..., and others. References External links * Book publishing companies based in Kentucky {{US-publish-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monterey, Kentucky
Monterey is a home rule-class city in Owen County, Kentucky, United States. During the 2020 US Census, the population was 112. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The downtown area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Monterey Historic District. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 167 people, 55 households, and 42 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 64 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.60% White, 0.60% Native American, 0.60% Asian, and 1.20% from two or more races. There were 55 households, out of which 54.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.6% were non-families. 20.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Zeitz
Gray Zeitz (born 1949 or 1950) is an American publisher, known for founding the Larkspur Press. His interest in printing started while he was studying at the University of Kentucky, and in 2013 the university held an event to celebrate his 40 years of work with the Larkspur Press. In 2002 he won the Artist Award of the Kentucky Governor's Awards in the arts. Early life Zeitz was born in Mobile, Alabama and raised in Elizabethtown, Kentucky Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 28,531 at the 2010 census, and was estimated at 30,289 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2019, making it the 11th-largest city .... He has two children and five grandchildren. References External linksLarkspur Press website Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American publishers (people) People from Mobile, Alabama People from Elizabethtown, Kentucky {{US-publish-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of ''The Gift of Good Land'' (1981) and ''The Unsettling of America'' (1977). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port William, such as ''A Place on Earth'' (1967), ''Jayber Crow'' (2000), and ''That Distant Land'' (2004). He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, since 2014, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky. Her memoir was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Early life and education A child of Wilburn and Christina Mason, Bobbie Ann Mason grew up on her family's dairy farm outside of Mayfield, Kentucky with four siblings and her great niece Mya Mason. As a child she loved to read with encouragement from her parents; however, choices were limited. These books were mostly popular fiction about the Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew mysteries. She would later write a book about these books she read in adolescence titled ''The Girl Sleuth: A feminist guide to the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Their Sisters''. Mason credits her time at a grade school in Cuba, Kentucky with influencing her adult fictional characters. After high school, Mason went on to major in English at the University of Kentucky. After graduating in 1962, she worked for a fan magazine publisher i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Baker Hall
James Baker Hall (April 14, 1935 – June 25, 2009) was an American poet, novelist, photographer and teacher. Biography James Baker Hall was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1935. He was raised in a southern family of means and social standing, only to have a family scandal turn tragic when he was eight years old. This trauma, and its enduring consequence, would shape Hall's life work as an artist, which began when he took up photography at age eleven. Hall graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in English, having studied writing under Robert Hazel among his lifelong literary colleagues: Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman, and Bobbie Ann Mason. In 1960, he received a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and shared the historic workshops in which ''Leaving Cheyenne'' (Larry McMurtry) and ''One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest'' (Ken Kesey) were being written. After his first novel, ''Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings'' (also written in these sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on November 23, 1927. His father was an agent for the Railway Express Agency. Davenport said that he became a reader only at 10, with a neighbor’s gift of one of the Tarzan series.Davenport, Guy. "On Reading." ''The Hunter Gracchus''. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. 19–20. At age eleven, he began a neighborhood newspaper, drawing all the illustrations and writing all the stories. At 13, he "broke isright leg (skating) and was laid up for a wearisome while"; it was then that he began "reading with real interest",Quartermain, Peter. "Writing as Assemblage / Guy Davenport" in Disjunctive Poetics (Cambridge University Press, 1992). 167. beginning with a biography of Leonardo. He left high school early and enrolled at Duke University a few w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed McClanahan
Edward Poage McClanahan (October 5, 1932 – November 27, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and professor. Biography McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky on October 5, 1932, to Edward Leroy and Jessie (Poage) McClanahan. He attended school there and later in nearby Maysville, Kentucky, where the family relocated in 1948. McClanahan attended Washington and Lee University for one year before leaving for Miami University, where he received a B.A. in English in 1955. He briefly attended Stanford University's graduate English program during the 1955–1956 academic year, where he studied under Richard Scowcroft and Malcolm Cowley; after failing to acclimate to the program, he received an M.A. in English from the University of Kentucky in 1958. From 1958 to 1962, McClanahan taught first-year composition and a creative writing course previously taught by Bernard Malamud as an instructor at Oregon State University. He received a Stegner Fellowship in Stanford University's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |