Author: Janice Holt Giles

After writing Hill Man, Janice Holt Giles said, ‘I was struck by its strength. It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of the …

Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her …

The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles’s novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky’s reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the stor …

The last book Giles published before her death in 1979, Wellspring has been out of print for years. The nineteen selections bring together Giles’s fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, and fictionalize …

Act of Contrition focuses on the intimate relationship between Regina, a widow, and Michael, a young doctor whose wife left him for another man. Having found happiness in one another, they desire not …

After writing Hill Man, Janice Holt Giles said, "I was struck by its strength. It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of …

The last book Giles published before her death in 1979, Wellspring has been out of print for years. The nineteen selections bring together Giles’s fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, and fictionalize …

Act of Contrition focuses on the intimate relationship between Regina, a widow, and Michael, a young doctor whose wife left him for another man. Having found happiness in one another, they desire not …

The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles’s novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky’s reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the stor …

Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her …