"Hillbilly Elegy" thrust JD Vance into the spotlight, but was criticized by some Appalachian authors.

As JD Vance leans on his Appalachian roots in his campaign for the White House, a distant cousin criticizes his portrayal of the region and their shared last name.

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day, 2020. I didn’t plan it this way. I’d been asked to review the film and I felt that I should read the book beforehand ...

Neema Avashia’s Indian American family was among the minority in West Virginia, a place she describes as having demographics that put you in two camps: white or not white. Though she said some people ...

Bob Hutton, an associate professor of Appalachian Studies at Glenville State University in West Virginia, wrote his response to "Elegy" in a "Reckoning" chapter titled "Hillbilly Elitism." ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention around his own Appalachian roots, but it wasn’t ...

Vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his speech to the RNC around his own Appalachian roots, but it wasn't the first time he had shared his personal story.

Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention around his own Appalachian roots, but it wasn’t the first time he had ...

The Ohio senator, author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and Donald Trump’s vice president candidate, has Kentucky ties. But his book is misinformed.

As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of the region.” In an effort to help broaden people ...