Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 15—Editor's note: This column first published in 2020 when former Dayton Daily News Reporter Bonnie Meibers, a cousin of ...

James David Vance, aka J.D. Vance, is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, published on June 28, 2016. He is an American author, venture capitalist, and ...

Vance’s account of his childhood and adolescence in a self-described “hillbilly” family in a languishing Ohio mill town opens a window onto a world that Americans need to see and understand more ...

Young J.D. Vance is blaming his mother for her struggles, while grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close) explains to him how family is the only thing that matters.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance, HarperCollins, $27.99, 264 pp. Read this remarkable book: It is by turns tender and funny, bleak and depressing, and thanks to ...

In 2016, my cousin, who is more like an older brother to me, released a book called “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” “Hillbilly Elegy” made the No. 1 spot on the New York ...