Legendary Appalachian Writer Gurney Norman Passes Away
Gurney Norman, a renowned Appalachian writer, filmmaker, professor, and cultural advocate, has died at the age of 88 due to natural causes, according to his wife.
Norman was born in 1937 in Grundy, Virginia, and grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, raised by his grandparents in Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.
- He attended Stuart Robinson School in Letcher County, Kentucky, from 1946-1955.
- Norman graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism and English from 1955-1959.
- In 1960, he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where he studied with notable literary figures.
His legacy as a writer, filmmaker, and cultural advocate will be remembered.
Author's summary: Gurney Norman, a legendary Appalachian writer, dies at 88.