Interview with Dianne Aprile, February 23, 1998
Project: Kentucky Writers Oral History Project
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Aprile discusses her career as an editorial journalist with the Louisville Courier-Journal as well a novelist, and the influences religion, family, and education have had on her writing.Interview Accession
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Aprile, Dianne (author) Writers Writing Poets Poetry Journalists Journalism Kentucky writers Kentucky poets Kentucky journalists Women writers Women poets Women journalists Women writers in Kentucky Southern writers (United States) Southern women writers (United States) Catholicism Judaism Interfaith families (United States) Interfaith marriages (United States) Religion Religion and writing Interfaith rituals Interfaith religions Interfaith churches Interfaith communitiesInterview LC Subject
Authors, American--Kentucky Intellectual life Literature Writing Writing about women Writing American women Writing and art Writing fiction Writing--History Writing study and teaching Writings of clergy Writings of teachers Journalism Women in journalism Women journalists Creative nonfiction Editorial writing Louisville (Ky.) Louisville (Ky.)--Church History Louisville (Ky.)--History Louisville (Ky.)--Newspapers Louisville (Ky.)--Poetry Gethsemani (Abbey: Trappist, Ky.) Interfaith families Intellectual life LiteratureInterview Rights
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Aprile, Dianne Interview by L. Elisabeth Beattie. 23 Feb. 1998. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Aprile, D. (1998, February 23). Interview by L. E. Beattie. Kentucky Writers Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Aprile, Dianne, interview by L. Elisabeth Beattie. February 23, 1998, Kentucky Writers Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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