Ann Pancake

Ann Pancake

female
novelist, Potomac Highlands, Jolo, WestVirginiawriter, short stories, dirt…Short story writer, writer, from West Virginia
Ann Pancake is an American fiction writer and essayist. She has published short stories and essays describing the people and atmosphere of...
Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam

male, 66 years old
New York Times, NASA personnel, author, New York Times best-seller, Space advocacy, vietnam veteran…science fiction writer, Virginia Tech alumni, WestVirginiawriter, from West Virginia, writer
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel...
Breece D'J Pancake

Breece D'J Pancake

male, deceased (1979)
University of Virginia, Marshall University alumni, Buckhannon, WestVirginiawriter, short fiction, The Atlantic…Short story writer, west virginia wesleyan college, from West Virginia
Breece D'J Pancake (June 29, 1952 - April 8, 1979) was an American author of short fiction.
Maggie Anderson

Maggie Anderson

female, 61 years old
WestVirginiawriter, from West Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, Ohio Arts Council, MacDowell Colony…west virginia wesleyan college, West Virginia University
Maggie Anderson (b. 1948) is an American poet. Born September 23 in New York City, she attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Virginia...
Chuck Kinder

Chuck Kinder

male, 63 years old
Stanford University, Honeymooners A Cautionary Tale, Wonder Boys, WestVirginiawriter, From Pittsburgh, waynesburg college…West Virginia University, writer, from West Virginia
Charles Alfonso Kinder, II (born 1946) is an American novelist. Chuck Kinder was born October 8 in Montgomery, West Virginia to Charles Alfonso and...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
George Polk Award recipient, Harvard University, American, piedmont, African-American studies scholar, WestVirginiawriter…from West Virginia
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle

female, deceased (2005)
American women writer, Lung cancer death, actress, non-fiction, gone with the wind, lung cancer…writer, from West Virginia, WestVirginiawriter
Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918 - September 27, 2005) was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel "Blood Tie"....
Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson

male, deceased (1950)
Negro World contributor, from Washington, D.C., Virginia writer, WestVirginiawriter, Washington, D.C. writer, Negro World contributors…from Virginia, from Huntington, West Virginia
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. He is considered the first to...
Davis Grubb

Davis Grubb

male, deceased (1980)
painter, novelist, from West Virginia, writer, social worker, motion picture…Short story writer, WestVirginiawriter
Davis Grubb (July 23, 1919 - July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to...