Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arnow's Life and the Critics -- Harriette Simpson Arnow's Life as a Writer -- Harriette Simpson and Harold Arnow in Cincinnati: 1934-1939 -- Artistic Vision -- Harriette Arnow's Chronicles of Destruction -- Harriette Arnow's Kentucky Novels: Beyond Local Color -- Harriette Arnow's Cumberland Women -- Harriette Arnow's Social Histories -- Individual Fiction -- The Harbinger: Arnow's Short Fiction -- "Fact and Fancy" in Mountain Path -- "Between the Flowers": Writing beyond Mountain Stereotypes -- The Central Importance of Hunter's Horn -- Hunter's Horn and the Necessity of Interdependence: Re-imagining the American Hunting Tale -- A Portrait of the Artist as Mother: Harriette Arnow and The Dollmaker -- Free Will and Determinism in Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker -- American Migration Tableau in Exaggerated Relief: The Dollmaker -- The Weedkiller's Daughter and The Kentucky Trace: Arnow's Egalitarian Vision -- Authorial Views -- Introduction to Mountain Path, First Appalachian Heritage Edition -- "Some Musings on the Nature of History," The Clarence M. Burton Memorial Lecture -- Fictional Characters Come to Life: An Interview -- Help and Hindrances in Writing: A Lecture -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.