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Hillbilly Elegy
Apr 30, 2025 5:42 PM

  Hillbilly Elegy memoir by Vance Actions Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hillbilly-Elegy Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hillbilly-Elegy Also known as: “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” Written by Tracy Grant Tracy Grant is editor-in-chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Tracy Grant Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Jul 17, 2024 • Article History Table of Contents In full: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Show more) Hillbilly Elegy is the best-selling 2016 memoir by J.D.Vance. In it the future U.S. senator and vice presidential nominee writes with candor and compassion about what it was like to grow up in “an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.” The book, which was turned into a movie in 2020, helped launch Vance’s political career. In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance uses sometimes-hard-to-read stories of his upbringing in Ohio and Kentucky in the 1980s and ’90s to draw conclusions about the political mindset of the people and places that helped form ...(100 of 682 words)

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