![]() ![]() ![]() Her accounts are accurate geographically and historically and are tied together by the fictitious Cooper, Fowler and Cartwright families. Giles's historical fiction works form a worthy study of early American pioneer life in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico among other states. ![]() The Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles Society was established in 1996 to preserve the literary legacy of Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles and to restore their log home. Her works include the Piney Woods trilogy, consisting of The Enduring Hills (1950), Miss Willie (1951), and Tara's Healing (1952), and the Kentucky trilogy, consisting of The Kentuckians (1953), Hannah Fowler (1956), and The Believers (1957). She also wrote contemporary fiction set in the Kentucky hills, as well as autobiographical and nonfiction works, some of them co-authored with Henry. ![]() Giles is noted primarily for her historical novels, set in Kentucky or on the Western frontier. They settled in Henry's native Adair County in 1949 and lived there until Janice's death on Jand Henry's death in 1986. She met Henry Giles on a 40-hour bus trip in 1943 and married him in 1945. Her first marriage, to Otto Moore in 1927, ended in divorce in 1939. She was born Janice Meredith Holt on March 28, 1909, in Altus, Arkansas. Janice Holt Giles was a Kentucky author who lived near Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky. ![]()
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