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CONTRIBUTORS HARRiETTE SIMPSON ARNOW (1908-1986) was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1930. She taught school in Louisville and Pulaski County, Kentucky, before moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934 to concentrate on her writing. In 1936, she published her first novel, Mountain Path. She married Harold Arnow in 1939, and by 1944, the Arnows had moved to Michigan. Hunter's Horn was published in 1949, followed by The Dollmaker in 1954, probably her most successful novel. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851) is widely considered America 's foremost naturalist and illustrator of birds. He lived and worked in Kentucky from 1807u n t il 1819, when he left to become a taxidermist for the Western Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. His artistic renderings in Birds ofAmerica, published in four volumes between 1827 and 1838, are considered, according to the Kentucky Encyclopedia, "unsurpassed in their accuracy and beauty." This work was followed by four additional books, including his wellknown Ornithological Biography (1831-1839). DAVE BAKER, a native of Fayette County, Kentucky, baled hay, raised tobacco, mucked horse stalls, and laid sewer lines "before wising up and getting a journalism degree from the University of Kentucky in 1985." He worked fifteen years as a reporter at daily newspapers throughout the state. He is the editor of Kentucky Afield, the magazine of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. WENDELL BERRY is a poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, conservationist , and former professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of more than forty books of fiction, essays, and poetry, including, most recently, the novel Hannah Coulter and Given, a collection of new poems. His work has been honored with numerous awards, including the T. S. Eliot Award, a Lannan Foundation Award for nonaction, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, and the John Hay Award of the Orion Society. He lives and farms in his native Henry County, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya Berry. SAM BEVARD, a native of Mason County, Kentucky, is a graduate of Morehead State University, a former teacher, and a retired Kentucky state probation and parole officer. He writes a weekly column for the Maysville Ledger-Independent and lives on Cabin Creek with his wife and sons. GARNETT c. BROWN JR., a native of Louisville, Kentucky, is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. After leaving the military, he returned to Kentucky to pursue farming and writing. He is the au364 CONTRIBUTORS [54.197.64.207] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 19:55 GMT) thor of A Death in the Family: Dealing with Grief's Slow Wisdom and contributes a weekly column, "Open Mind," to the Bourbon County Citizen. His work has appeared in anthologies and in a variety of magazines, including Kentucky Monthly and American Rifleman. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Webster University, and the National War College, he resides in Lexington , Kentucky, with his wife, Sandra. LINDA CALDWELL lives on a Madison County, Kentucky, farm that has been in her family for over a century. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Chaffin Journal, Appalachian Heritage , Tears in the Fence, and several regional anthologies. She is presently writing a play for the First Kentucky Women's Playwright Festival. WALTER L. CATO JR., a native of Beaumont, Texas, grew up in Kentucky and has practiced law in Louisville since graduating from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1962. He is an avid and well-traveled hunter and fisherman, and his stories have appeared in Southwestern Newsweek, Southwestern Weekly, Knife World, and Happy Hunting Ground. He lives in Green Spring, Kentucky, with his wife, Joyce Tyrrell. HARRY M. CAUDILL (1922-1990), a native of Long Branch, Kentucky , was a writer, attorney, professor, activist, and state legislator . After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1948, he established a law practice in Whitesburg, where he wrote his celebrated book on the problems of Appalachia, Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1963). His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, The Nation, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His other books include My Land Is Dying, A Darkness at Dawn, and The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord. CONTRIBUTORS 365 BILLY c. CLARK, a native of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, is the award-winning author of numerous short stories and poems and fourteen books, including^ Long Row to Hoe, which was on Time magazine's list of "Best Books" in i960; Trail of the Hunter 's...