Harriette Arnow

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...