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Harriette Simpson Arnow

Born: 1908   Wayne County , KY
Died: 1986
Parents: Elias Thomas Simpson, Mollie Jane Simpson
Spouse: Harold B. Arnow
Children: Marcella Jane, Thomas Louis
Address(es):
Last Known
Ann Arbor , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Doll Maker
- Television movie 		Fiction Adult American Broadcasting Company 1984
Old Burnside Non Fiction , Biography Adult Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press 1977
The Kentucky trace; a novel of the American Revolution Historical Fiction Adult New York: Knopf 1973
The Weedkiller's Daughter
- Explores the secret world of a 15 year old girl in a Detroit suburb. A novel about two American preoccupations: suburbia and teenagers. 		Michigan Adult New York : Knopf 1970
Seedtime on the Cumberland
- The settling of southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee from pre-Revolutionary times to the beginning of the nineteenth century is described in everyday detail. 		Non Fiction , History Adult New York: Macmillan 1963
The Doll Maker
- A family from the hills of Kentucky searches for new roots in wartime (1940s) industrial Detroit 		Historical Fiction , Michigan Adult New York: Macmillan 1954
Hunter's Horn
- (Publication Years: 1949, reprint 1979) Re-released by Michigan State University Press, 1997. 		Fiction Adult New York: Macmillan 1949
Mountain Path Historical Fiction Adult Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky 1936
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "Mrs. Arnow writes novels longhand sitting in the breezeway where she cannot hear the telephone." Refering to a summer job in a small resort near Petosky, "I found myself in a delightful world of blue water, blue skies, white birches, stump fences, swamps, and with leisure to enjoy it all."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Mark Twain Award, Michigan State University 1984
Inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame when living in Ann Arbor 1983
Cranbrook Writers Guild Award 1975
Tennessee Historical Quarterly prize for the best article of the year 1962
Commendation from Tennessee Historical Commission 1961
Award of Merit of American Association for State and Local History 1961
Runner up, National Book Award 1955
Honorary Degree, Albion College 1955
Berea College Centinnel Award 1955
Friends of American Writers Award 1955
Women's Home Companion Silver Distaff Award 1955
Mid-America Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Literary Luminaries from Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden by Anna Clark, The History Press, 2015 2015
Literary Michigan by The Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Something about the Author
- Something about the Author, volume(s) 42 Something about the Author - Obituary, volume(s) 47 		1986 -1987
Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume(s) 6
- American Novelists since World War II 		1980
Michigan in Fiction
- Michigan Department of Education 		1976
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 9-12R Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 118 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 14 		1974 -1985
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 2, 7, 18 1974 -1981
Michigan Authors, 1st ed., 2nd ed., 3rd ed.
- Listed in the following editions: 1960, 1980, 1993 		1960
American Authors and Books
American Novelists of Today
American Women Writers
Contemporary Novelists
Current Biography
Index to Women
International Authors and Writers Who's Who
Who's Who of American Women
World Authors
The Writers Directory

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) University of Louisville Louisville , KY 1931
Berea College Berea , KY 1924 -1926

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Teacher Pulaski County Schools KY 1933 -1939
Teacher, Housewife, Author
- Became acquainted with a newspaper reporter in Petoskey, Michigan who became husband

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