Notes from a Native Son: Essays on the Appalachian Experience [Paperback]

Garry Barker (Author), Jim Wayne Miller (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; 1st edition (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870499009
• ISBN-13: 978-0870499005
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,794,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Garry Gene Barker was born in 1943 and grew up one of nine children on a Kentucky tobacco farm, graduated from Berea College (Ky.) in 1965 and worked 40 years as an arts administrator in North Carolina and Kentucky. He has published 15 books of fiction, poetry, essay, and history. He is not the Garry Barker who writes about Mac computers or the one who writes about The Clash. This Garry Barker writes about Appalachian Kentucky. He is now retired and lives in Bald Hill, Ky., with his wife Danetta and border collie Atticus Rex.