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Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories-a rich personal journey into Norman's life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life.
About the author
Gurney Norman is a novelist and short-story writer whose works include the books
Divine Right's Trip, Kinfolks, Ancient Creek, and
Allegiance. He is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a former Kentucky poet laureate. A native of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, he was the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Norman has received many honors for his work, including induction into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, and is a widely known Appalachian literary and cultural advocate. He is a coeditor of
Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes and
An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature.
