Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 5, 1934
Birthday: August 5
When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.
source: Source: www.neh.gov
topic: Kentucky, Violence, Causes, Heartlessness