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George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 33, Number 3, Summer 2005, pp. 3-5 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2005.0119 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434652/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:34 GMT from JHU Libraries This Side of the Mountain George Brosi This issue of Appalachian Heritage celebrates four Kentucky writers who share an important distinction. Beginning in 1958 and continuing for the next five years, four graduates of the University of Kentucky received prestigious Stegner Fellowships to Stanford University in California. These fellowships were named for Wallace Stegner (1909- 1993), one of his generation's greatest nature writers, a Pulitzer Prize winner who founded the Creative Writing Program at Stanford. All four Kentucky writers returned to the Commonwealth where they were raised. Although they live very different lives, each of them has found ways to incorporate the positive values of the sixties California counter-culture with traditional rural Kentucky culture. Wendell Berry farms with horses organically and writes essays and fiction challenging Americans to revere the land and the people. James Baker Hall also lives on a farm and is widely known as an inspirational teacher, poet and photographer. Ed McClanahan continues to write
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