a woman torn from the woods and farmland to move with her children to join her husband living in World War II factory workers' housing in Detroit, it can be seen as a work of feminist fiction. Arnow herself disputed this characterization however, preferring to see it as an individual woman's struggle to survive in a harsh and changing world Of her writing she said, "I am afflicted with too many words ... Like the characters in my books, I talk too much and tell things I shouldn't tell." Later works were published under the now-familiar byline Harriette Simpson Arnow, and most reissues of her earlier work use this form of her name. Her post-Dollmaker books included the historical studies Seedtime on the Cumberland, 1960, and Flowering of the Cumberland, 1963. These two extraordinary histories of the pioneer settlement of the Old Southwest frontier--Tennessee and Kentucky--were based on extensive archival research Arnow conducted in original records. Pioneering works of what would later be called 'micro-history' or 'history from the bottom up,' Arnow's work used original records and sources to look at the way these early settlers actually lived and worked and their material culture. Her last books were the novels The Weedkiller's Daughter, 1970, The Kentucky Trace, 1974, and the memoir Old Burnside, 1977. She died in 1986, aged 77, at her home in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Michigan State University Press brought out her previously unpublished second novel, Between the Flowers, in 1999, and The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow in 2005. Continuing influence On June 28, 2008, Ann Arbor eatery Zingerman's Roadhouse hosted The Harriette Arnow Tribute Dinner. Promotional materials referring to the dinner as "Ypsitucky Supper" caused some local controversy due to the often derogatory nature of the term Ypsitucky. Zingerman's co-founder Ari Weinzweig claimed no responsibility for the nickname of the dinner. Published works Novels Mountain Path (1936) (as Harriette Simpson) Hunter's Horn (1949) (as Harriette Arnow) The Dollmaker (1954) (as Harriette Arnow) The Weedkiller's Daughter (1970) The Kentucky Trace (1974) Between the Flowers (1999) Short fiction The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow (2005) Non-fiction Seedtime on the Cumberland (1960) Flowering of the Cumberland (1963) Old Burnside (1977) References External links Harriet Arnow (1908–1996) from the D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections - Southern Appalachian Writers Collection at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Arnow farm, Keno, Ky., history and photos Guide