The couple bought a farm at the edge of the Cumberland National Forest, in Keno, Kentucky, and lived there for five years (1939-1945), where three children were born, though only their daughter Marcella Jane Arnow (b. Arnow, whom she married on March 22, 1939.
as a researcher and writer in Cincinnati in 1938, she met Harold B. Her second novel, Between the Flowers, was posthumously published (Michigan State University Press, 1999). She published short stories in the 1930s and ’40s and began her first novel, Mountain Path (Covici-Freide, 1936), accepted by John Steinbeck’s publisher, which received favorable reviews in The New York Times and Saturday Review. She moved to Cincinnati in 1934 and worked as a waitress, clerk, and typist to support herself as a writer. She graduated from the University of Louisville (B.S., education, 1931) then taught again until she decided that she “would rather starve as a writer than starve as a teacher.” Her first teaching job was in a one-room school in Pulaski County, Kentucky. She graduated from Burnside High School (1924) and earned her teaching certificate from Berea College (1924-26). Harriette wanted to be a writer before she started to school. This family of storytellers could trace both sides of the family back to the American Revolutionary War. She was the second eldest of the six children of Mollie Jane Denney Simpson and Elias Thomas Simpson, both of whom were born in Wayne County, Kentucky. Growing up in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky shaped the life and fiction of Harriette Simpson Arnow.
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