Kim Michele Richardson
Kim Michele Richardson is an American author whose fiction and memoir explore Appalachian life, marginalization, and women’s endurance. She is best known for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and its sequel, The Book Woman’s Daughter, along with the memoir The Unbreakable Child; her work has appeared on bestseller lists and in multiple translations.
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Kim Michele Richardson is a Kentucky novelist and memoirist whose work is rooted in personal survival and in the landscapes and histories of her home state. Public biographical accounts describe a childhood spent in a rural Kentucky orphanage, followed by poverty and homelessness as a teenager; those experiences later informed her memoir, The Unbreakable Child. In 2024, Eastern Kentucky University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humanities, recognizing the cultural reach of work that has repeatedly returned to eastern Kentucky and its people. ((https://www.kimmichelerichardson.com/about))
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"Kim Michele Richardson once again evokes secretive, small-town Southern life, this time in the bourbon-distilling, riverside town of Glass Ferry"
— Historical Novels Review
"Author Kim Michele Richardson has already brought vivid sparks when writing about mistrust, small minds and the vulnerability of the young"
— LEO Weekly
"No one writes about gritty courageous women like Kim Michele Richardson"
— Jeannette Walls
"Kim Michele Richardson writes with an authentic Southern voice straight out of Kentucky, well graveled, rough with moonshine, and damn near irresistible"
— Joshilyn Jackson
"Kim Michele Richardson has written a fascinating novel about people almost forgotten by history: Kentucky's pack-horse librarians and blue people"
— Ron Rash
"Without Kim Michele Richardson's heartfelt, uplifting storytelling, the world would be a sadder place, indeed"
— William Kent Krueger
"With magical writing and a strong sense of time and place, Kim Michele Richardson introduces us to an engaging and unforgettable protagonist in Muddy Summers"
— Diane Chamberlain
"Kim Michele Richardson brings us an unforgettable historical novel full of heart with a gutsy heroine to boot!"
— Boswell Book Company
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