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Harriette Simpson Arnow introduces readers of The Dollmaker to its author – a feisty, funny, out-spoken, talented and hardworking woman in interviews filmed not long before her death. Arnow provides the basic biographical details of her life and reveals the difficulties of being a writer, a wife and a mother, roles that she balanced for much of her career. The film explores her experience teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in her native Pulaski County, Kentucky; how she left the mountains looking for work and an opportunity to write; and of the struggle to find the time and energy to write while raising a family, first on a Appalachian farm, then in wartime Detroit. Watch "Harriette Simpson Arnow" on YouTube here: https://loom.ly/JOMLsFc 📸 Appalshop, "Harriette Simpson Arnow," Herb E. Smith, 1987 #HarrietteSimpsonArnow #TheDollmaker #WomenWritersHistory #Appalachia #Appalachians #AppalachianMountains #Mountain #MountainLife #MountainPeople #MountainStories #MountainArt #MountainMusic #EasternKentucky #Nonprofit #Documentary #DocumentaryFilm #DocumentaryFilmmaking #DocumentaryFilmmaker #Indie #IndieFilm