author
Florence Lilian Bush
1865–1972
A Michigan-born writer and artist, she is best remembered for co-authoring Goose Creek Folks, a 1912 novel that brings Kentucky mountain life vividly to the page. She lived an extraordinarily long life, spanning more than a century from the Civil War era into the 1970s.
1 Audiobook
Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains
by Isabel Graham Bush, Florence Lilian Bush
About the author
Born in Michigan on March 11, 1865, Florence Lilian Bush was an American writer who also studied art. Reference sources connect her with Battle Creek and note education at Battle Creek College, Michigan State Normal, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her best-known published work is Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains (1912), written with Isabel Graham Bush and issued by Fleming H. Revell Company. The novel has remained accessible through public-domain collections, which has helped keep her name in circulation for modern readers interested in regional fiction and early 20th-century storytelling.
Bush died on December 2, 1972, at the age of 107. Confirmed biographical details about her life and career are limited in the sources available online, but the record that survives shows a long-lived Midwestern author whose work preserved a particular vision of Appalachian community life.