West Virginia literature

The literature of West Virginia, U.S.A., includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Pearl S. Buck, Rebecca Harding Davis, Keith Maillard and Melville Davisson Post.

See also

• List of newspapers in West Virginia
• Appalachia § Literature
• Category:West Virginia in fiction
• Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism
• Category:Libraries in West Virginia

Bibliography

• Mary Meek Atkeson; James Morton Callahan (1913). "Development of Literature in West Virginia". Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia. Semi-Centennial Commission of West Virginia. pp. 563–568.
• Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: West Virginia". Library of Southern Literature. Vol. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 226. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust.
• Elsie Dershem (1921). "West Virginia". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company. pp. 179–183 – via Internet Archive.
• Mary Meek Atkeson (1922). Study of the Literature of West Virginia, 1822-1922. Washington DC.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ella May Turner, ed. (1923). Stories and Verse of West Virginia. Hagerstown, Md.
• Warren Wood (1926). Representative Authors of West Virginia.
• Charles Carpenter (April 1935). "The 'First" Books of West Virginia". West Virginia Review. 12.
• Innis C. Davis; Emily Johnston (1939). "Titles of Books Written by West Virginians and Those Printed in West Virginia". Biennenial Report of the State Department of Archives and History. Charleston, WV.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Harriet W. Pierson (1940). Literature and Poetry of the Locale of West Virginia.
• Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Literature". West Virginia: a Guide to the Mountain State. American Guide Series. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 144–150. ISBN 9781595342461 – via Google Books.
• Otis K. Rice (July 1953). "West Virginia Printers and their Work, 1790-1830". West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X.
• Charles H. Ambler; Festus P. Summers (1958). "Pioneering in Literature and Education". West Virginia, the Mountain State (2nd ed.). Prentice-Hall. pp. 156–167. hdl:2027/mdp.39015014737517 – via HathiTrust. + Literary Scene pp. 506–520. (Fulltext)
• Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: a Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville, WV: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive.
• Charlotte Coulthard Reed (1962). West Virginia Poetry since 1913, a Bibliography.
• Virginia Foulk (April 1964). "Women Authors of West Virginia". West Virginia History. 25.
• Vito J. Brenni (1968). Joyce Binder (ed.). West Virginia Authors: a Biobibliography. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University.
• Jim Comstock, ed. (1974). Stories and Verse of West Virginia. (Anthology)
• Kitty B. Frazier (1979). West Virginia Women Writers 1822-1979. (Bibliography)
• Harold M. Forbes (1981). "Literature" (PDF). West Virginia History: A Bibliography and Guide to Research. West Virginia University Press.
• Gordon Simmons (4 February 2014). "Literature". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
• Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, eds. (2001). "Literature of West Virginia". Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. p. 957. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.

External links

• "West Virginia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
• "LibGuides: Appalachian Studies". Huntington, WV: Marshall University Libraries.. (Subject guide)
• "Authors List". West Virginia Literary Map. Fairmont, WV: Fairmont State University, West Virginia Folklife Center. 35 authors from...1863-2003, plus a West Virginia site often associated with them or their work
• United for Libraries (27 February 2009). "Literary Landmarks by State: West Virginia". Chicago: American Library Association.