![]() ![]() Where are the small-town folks, where are Appalachians? If we show up at all, it’s as dumb hillbillies, or objects of pity. Movies, TV and national news are all made in cities by urban people who seem not to know we exist. First, I was fed up with how our region is represented in mainstream media. ![]() What inspired you to write “Demon Copperhead”? Here is her interview with “A! Magazine for the Arts”: She lives in Washington County, Virginia. as well as the Dayton Literary Prize for the body of her work. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the United States highest honor for service through the arts the Orange Prize in the U.K. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. Kingsolver is the author of 10 bestselling works of fiction, including the novels ”Unsheltered,” “Flight Behavior,” “The Lacuna,” “The Poisonwood Bible,” “Animal Dreams,” The Bean Trees,” as well as books of poetry, essays and creative nonfiction like her influential bestseller, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.” ![]() Barbara Kingsolver has a new novel coming out in late October, “Demon Copperhead.” What makes this a special cause for celebration throughout the region is that in the following interview she says that she has attempted to write the “great Appalachian novel.” ![]()
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