Many Appalachian residents and writers ... Steve Williams, a Democrat running for governor of West Virginia, reacted on X. "I read 'Hillbilly Elegy.' It drove me crazy," he wrote.

Since the release of his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy ... associates than an unemployed coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge the ...

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month ... a collection of essays called “Appalachian Reckoning” that serves as a rebuttal to “Hillbilly Elegy.” ...

Neema Avashia’s Indian American family was among the minority in West Virginia, a place she describes as having ... offers a very narrow view of the region’s people in his book, “Hillbilly Elegy.” ...

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." ...

Donald Trump had picked Vance as his running mate at least in part because his “hillbilly ... coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge ...