Kentucky literature


The literature of Kentucky, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Lane Allen, Wendell Berry, Theodore O'Hara, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Robert Penn Warren.

History

A printing press began operating in Lexington in 1787.
Writers of the antebellum period included Theodore O'Hara.
The prolific Southern writer Robert Penn Warren wrote his first novel Night Rider based on the Kentucky-Tennessee Black Patch Tobacco Wars.