My Tripod Page

This homepage is my Senior Honor's Project about women writers of Southern Appalachia. The page covers six authors who set their stories in the Appalachian mountains. I selected one book per author and explored different themes in each.


-Harriete Arnow's HUNTER'S HORN is set in Kentucky
-Wilma Dykeman's THE TALL WOMAN is set in North Carolina
-Denise Giardina's STORMING HEAVEN is set in West Virginia
-Sharon McCrumb's SHE WALKS THESE HILLS is set in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
-Mary Murfree's IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS is set in East Tennessee
-Lee Smith's ORAL HISTORY is set in Southwest Virginia