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Best known for a Kentucky-set novel now preserved by Project Gutenberg, this writer is associated with a vivid, old-fashioned tale of family conflict, moonshining, and redemption in the Appalachian highlands.
by Everett MacDonald
Everett MacDonald is the credited author of The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky, a novel available through Project Gutenberg and listed by booksellers and reader databases such as Amazon and Goodreads. The book was released on Project Gutenberg in 2011 from scans supplied by the Kentuckiana Digital Library, which suggests the work itself is much older than its digital edition.
Based on the available descriptions, MacDonald wrote fiction rooted in Kentucky life, with The Red Debt centering on mountain communities, family feuds, illicit distilling, and the building of a church. Reliable biographical details about the author beyond that are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember Everett MacDonald mainly through this surviving novel and its strong regional setting.
No confirmed official biography or clearly documented portrait turned up in the sources I checked.