Lee Pennington
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Lee Pennington

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LEE PENNINGTON is the author of 21 books including I knew a Woman (1977) and Thigmotropism (1993) and Appalachian Newground (2016)--all nominated for Pulitzer Prize. His latest is Daughters of Leda (2017). He has had over 1300 poems published in more than 300 magazines in America and abroad. He has had nine plays produced, wrote the script for The Moonshine War (MGM, 1970, starring Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, etc.), and has published thousands of articles in everything from Playgirl to Mountain Life and Work. Since 1990, through his video production company, JoLe Productions (joleproductions.com), Lee, along with his late wife, Joy, produced 24 documentaries including In Search of the Mudmen (1990), Wales: History in Bondage (1995), and Secret of the Stones (1998), Eyes that Look at the Sky: The Mystery of Easter Island (2001), The Mound Builders (2001), The Serpent Fort: Solving the Mystery of Fort Mountain, Georgia (2005), Let Me Not Drown on the Waters: Fred Rydholm, Michigan’s “Mr. Copper” and Sometimes You Clean, Sometimes You Litter: The Amazing Warner Sizemore, Room to Fly:Anne Caudill’s Album, Bosnian Pyramids Hidden History, Seafaring Strangers: Vikings in America. His most recent documentary is Gunung Padang:Monument to Atlantis. Lee is a graduate Berea College in KY and the University of Iowa. He holds two Honorary Doctor degrees: Doctor of Literature from World University, and Doctor of Philosophy in Arts from The Academy of Southern Arts and Letters. He taught for nearly 40 years, the last 32 as Professor of English and creative writing at University of Kentucky Jefferson Community College until he retired in 1999 He has traveled extensively (in all the United States, all the Canadian Provinces except one, and in 85 foreign countries). In 2013 the University of Louisville opened THE LEE AND JOY PENNINGTON CULTURAL HERITAGE GALLERY which will house all of his works as well as the University’s rarest items such as first editions of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Lee presently lives in Kratz House, a designated historic home, in Middletown, KY with Jill Baker, an artist who illustrated many of Lee’s books. For the past dozen years, he has served as president of the Ancient Kentucke Historical Association, a group dedicated to the study and research of pre-Columbian contact in the Americas.
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