Gurney Norman (born July 22, 1937) is an American novelist, documentarian, and professor.
Gurney Norman was born in Grundy, Virginia in 1937. He grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains and was raised alternately by his maternal grandparents in Southwest Virginia and his paternal grandparents in East Kentucky in several towns, but primarily in the small community of Allais, near Hazard, in Perry County. While a sophomore at Stuart Robinson S...
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Gurney Norman (born July 22, 1937) is an American novelist, documentarian, and professor.
Gurney Norman was born in Grundy, Virginia in 1937. He grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains and was raised alternately by his maternal grandparents in Southwest Virginia and his paternal grandparents in East Kentucky in several towns, but primarily in the small community of Allais, near Hazard, in Perry County. While a sophomore at Stuart Robinson School in Letcher County, Kentucky, his older brother was killed in an automobile accident, which deeply affected his life. Norman attended the University of Kentucky from 1955-1959 graduating with a degree in journalism and English. In 1960, he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University where he studied with literary critic Malcolm Cowley and the Irish short story writer Frank O'Connor After Stanford, he spent two years in the U.S. Army. Norman returned to eastern Kentucky in 1963 to work as a reporter for...
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