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Harriette Arnow
American author
Quick Facts
- Née:
- Harriette Louisa Simpson
- Born:
- July 7, 1908, Bronston, Ky., U.S.
- Died:
- March 22, 1986, Ann Arbor, Mich. (aged 77)
Harriette Arnow (born July 7, 1908, Bronston, Ky., U.S.—died March 22, 1986, Ann Arbor, Mich.) was an American novelist, social historian, short-story writer, and essayist, known primarily for the novel The Dollmaker (1954), the story of a Kentucky hill family that moves north to Detroit during World War II. Arnow is an important writer who is often overlooked because of her regionalist approach to universal experience. One of six children, Arnow was born in rural Kentucky. After her sixth year her family lived primarily in the town of Burnside, although they spent some time by the Torrent, Ky., oil fields, ...(100 of 715 words)