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AN APPALACHIAN WRITER
Legends come in all different shapes and sizes and from all over the world. Even people that grow up in extreme poverty, in rural Eastern Kentucky, have the power to become a legend. Jesse Stuart was an incredible writer who told the stories of his homeland. His writing made him a legend. His life also helped shape his writing. Where he was born, how he grew up, and what he was taught, had a great impact on his writing.
Jesse Stuart was born in W-Hollow, in Greenup County, on August, 8, 1906, to Mitchell and Martha Hilton Stuart. He was their first son, and the second of their seven children. His father, known as "Mick," married Martha in Greenup County. They lived together forty-nine years before Martha died. Within those forty-nine years, they lived in six different houses, all in a one-mile stretch in W-Hollow. Jesse's father worked as a coal-miner for awhile and then began share-cropping, until he earned enough money to buy fifty acres of land.......

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