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Activist/US of Appalachia author Jeff Biggers will be at Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville
on Sunday, November 11th, 1-3pm
The United States of Appalachia
Jeff Biggers
"Read it and your faltering hopes will rise."
Studs Terkel
"Biggers has fashioned a masterpiece of popular
history . . . revelations abound." Citizen-Times
Appalachia has long been a vanguard region in the
United States, a cradle offreedom and independence and
a hotbed for the arts, ranging from the American
Revolution to the abolitionist, labor and civil rights movements, and groundbreaking literary and musical inventions. Far from being in the backwash of American history, Appalachia has produced some of our country's most important innovators, including Cherokee inventor Sequoyah,
Black History Month founder Carter Woodson, folk, jazz and country music legends Bessie Smith, WC Handy, Nina Simone, the Carter Family, Stanley Brothers and
Loretta Lynn, NY Times publisher Adolph Ochs, legions of authors including Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Wolfe, Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Louis Gates, James Still and Rebecca Harding Davis, and social activists John
Rankin, Martin Delany, Myles Horton and Walter Reuther, to name only a few. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers shows that to understand
American history it is essential to know Appalachian history.
"Biggers tells his story with verve and vivid detail, a story that will at once provoke and inspire."
Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
"Biggers' book educates us as to just how biased and
ignorant we really are about this region and its rich
legacy of cultural, political, and intellectual
pioneers.."The United States of Appalachia" is full of
historical insights..."
San Antonio Express-News
Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer, radio correspondent, and educator across the United States,
Europe, India, and Mexico. His award-winning stories and programs have aired on NPR and PRI and
have appeared in various magazines and newspapers. Author of In the Sierra Madre, he also coedited No
Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems of Don West, which won an American Book Award. For more
information, visit his website: www.jeffbiggers.com
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