Giles, Janice Holt 1909-1979

The novelist Janice Holt Giles was born March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas, and grew up in both Arkansas and Oklahoma. She attended the University of Arkansas and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1941, she moved to Kentucky, working in Frankfort and Louisville. She later met and married native Kentuckian, Henry Giles, and settled on a farm near his boyhood home in Adair County. Her first novel, THE ENDURING HILLS, was published in 1950, after which she became a full-time writer. Her earlier historical novels were well researched and historically accurate works about the founding and early settlement of Kentucky. Later novels took the descendents of those Kentucky characters to the Arkansas and Oklahoma frontier. Giles died June 1, 1979 and was buried near her home in Adair County, Kentucky.

From the description of Janice Holt Giles letter, 1954 Oct. 5. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38744761

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