Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Novelist
An American author, she is best known for The Time of Man, The Great Meadow, and other Appalachian-themed works.
She studied writing at the University of Chicago, but later returned to her native Kentucky.
She received the O. Henry Award in 1930.
Born in Kentucky, she was the daughter of a Confederate veteran.
She was a contemporary of William Faulkner and other Southern Renaissance writers.