Harry M. Caudill;

was born in Whitesburg, Kentucky,  May 3, 1922. Author, historian, lawyer, legislator, and environmentalist from Letcher County Kentucky.  Mr. Caudill, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, shot himself in the head with a .38-caliber handgun at his home in the Cumberland Mountains near Whitesburg on November 29, 1990.

Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area  1962; Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

My Land Is Dying 1973; New York: E.P. Dutton

The Watches of the Night 1976; Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

A Darkness at Dawn: Appalachian Kentucky and the Future 1976; Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky

Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley 1969; Ashland, KY

The Senator from Slaughter County 1973; Ashland, KY

The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office 1980; Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky

Slender is the Thread: Tales from a Country Law Office 1987; Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky

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