Yale Law professor Amy Chua played a critical role in bolstering Vance's profile when she encouraged him to write his memoir, ...

Before he was a politician, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was largely known for his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" about his Appalachian childhood.

Former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, achieved fame with “Hillbilly Elegy,” a successful yet controversial memoir of his working-class Ohio upbringing.

In his best-selling 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance details his Ohio upbringing in a middle and working-class family and his escape from a family history of abuse, alcoholism and trauma ...

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been experiencing a recent resurgence since Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump picked the Ohio U.S. Sen. Vance as his running mate, soaring to the top of the best ...

JD Vance repeatedly rebuffed entreaties to work with groups in the hometown he made famous in “Hillbilly Elegy,” according to dozens of interviews with locals and his private correspondence.

Overcoming “Hillbilly Elegy” Vance writes in Hillbilly Elegy that he grew up most of his life in Middletown, Ohio, but spent summers and his free time until the age of 12 in Jackson, Ky. Vance ...

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy.” The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in ...

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy.” The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in ...

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy is seeing a resurgence in popularity eight years after it originally came out in 2016 on the heels of Vance becoming the Republican nominee for vice ...

Hillbilly, which chronicles Vance’s tumultuous upbringing in the southern Ohio city of Middletown, where he lived off and on with a mother who suffered from drug addiction, and his elderly Mamaw ...

As a 10th-generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" as a "really one-sided and simple view of the region." In an effort to help broaden people;s view of ...