Featured Authors

Since 2002, each issue of Appalachian Heritage has focused on a different regional writer by featuring literary criticism and literary biography about the author as well as a sampling of his or her works.

Winter 2013 40th Anniversary Various Authors
Fall 2012 Nikki Giovanni
Summer 2012 Breece D’J Pancake
Spring 2012 Harriette Simpson Arnow
Winter 2012 Mark Powell
Fall 2011 Frank X Walker
Summer 2011 Lee Maynard
Spring 2011 Karen Salyer McElmurray
Winter 2011 Cormac McCarthy
Fall 2010 James Still
Summer 2010 George Ella Lyon
Spring 2010 C. E. Morgan
Winter 2010 Pinckney Benedict
Fall 2009 Robert J. Conley
Summer 2009 Jim Wayne Miller
Spring 2009 Pamela Duncan
Winter 2009 Jayne Anne Phillips
Fall 2008 Don West
Summer 2008 African American Appalachian writers
Spring 2008 Mildred Haun
Winter 2008 Billy Edd Wheeler
Fall 2007 Thomas Wolfe
Summer 2007 Al Stewart
Spring 2007 Earl Hamner
Winter 2007 Darnell Arnoult
Fall 2006 Meredith Sue Willis
Summer 2006 Jeff Mann
Spring 2006 Crystal Wilkinson
Winter 2006 Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005)
Fall 2005 Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919)
Summer 2005 Gurney Norman
Spring 2005 Michael McFee
Winter 2005 Gretchen Moran Laskas
Fall 2004 Sharyn McCrumb
Summer 2004 Robert Morgan
Spring 2004 Silas House
Winter 2004 Lisa Alther
Fall 2003 Jeff Daniel Marion
Summer 2003 Fred Chappell
Spring 2003 James B. Goode
Winter 2003 Lee Smith
Fall 2002 Ron Rash

Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
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