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Harriet Arnow
Claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter Harriette Arnow was born in Wayne County, Kentucky in 1908. She became a school teacher like her mother and in 1936 published her first book, a novel, Mountain Path. In 1939, she married Harold B. Arnow, and they moved to Detroit, Michigan. Her 1949 novel Hunter's Horn was a best seller. In 1954, she published her most famous work The Dollmaker, about a poor Kentucky family forced by economic necessity to move to Detroit. Later works included the historical studies Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland. She published The Weedkiller's Daughter in 1970, The Kentucky Trace in 1974, and Old Burnside in 1977. She died in 1986.
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