Brooke LaValley/Columbus Dispatch Vance kickstarted his public career with the memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," detailing his upbringing in a poverty-stricken area by a family with Appalachian values.
Writing Appalachia: An Anthology' edited by Katherine ... of Charles Dickens "David Copperfield" as a young man navigating poverty in contemporary Southern Appalachia. In what The Washington ...