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  <name><![CDATA[Silas House]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Silas House is the author of the novels Clay's Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), and The Coal Tattoo (2004) and the play The Hurting Part (2005). In 2009 he will release a new nonfiction book, Something's Rising (March), a new play, Long Time Travelling (April), and a new novel, Eli the Good (October). 

House's fiction is known for its attention to the natural world, working class characters, and the plight of the rural place and rural people. He is also a music journalist, environmental activist and columnist. House has written features or press kits on such artists as Kris Kristofferson, LeAnn Womack, Lucinda Williams, Nickel Creek, Kelly Willis, Buddy Miller, Darrell Scott, Delbert McClinton, Tim O'Brien, Scott Miller, and many more. 

In 2000, House was chosen, along with since-published authors Pamela Duncan, Jeanne Braselton and Jack Riggs, as one of the ten emerging talents in the south by the Millennial Gathering of Writers at Vanderbilt University. He is writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, and lives in Eastern Kentucky, where he was born and raised. ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Lily, Kentucky</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Clay's Quilt]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Parchment of Leaves]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Coal Tattoo: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eli the Good]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jason Howard]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lee Smith]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mari-Lynn Evans]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mountain Mysteries II: The Unexplained]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jack Wright]]></name>
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