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- University of North Carolina Press
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Abstract
lee maynard: an executive and writer with an outlaw edge _ George Brosi Lee Maynard is a man of many passions and pursuits. A very successful business consultant, he is also at home in the wilderness and carries with him a deep understanding of his native West Virginia. He has published more often for the staid Reader's Digest than for any other magazine, yet he took in stride the fact that his first book, Crum, was deemed unfit for sale and initially banned by Tamarack, the premier outlet for West Virginia books. The contrast between the proper style of Reader's Digest and his personal style of outlaw fiction does not seem to bother him. He just keeps writing. A short conversation with Lee Maynard is much more likely to reveal that once, on a whim, he drove his motorcycle from New Mexico up to the Arctic Circle than the fact that he has served as a college president. Lee Maynard was born in 1936 in his grandmother's parlor in Kenova, West Virginia. He lived there in Wayne County almost all the time until he graduated from Ceredo-Kenova High School in 1954. As an infant, he lived in a
Journal
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 13, 2011