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Young Ewing Allison
1853–1932
A Kentucky newspaperman with a storyteller’s eye, he moved easily between journalism, poetry, and regional history. Best remembered for helping preserve the legend of "The Kentucky Home," he brought local color and sharp wit to everything he wrote.
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The Delicious Vice
by Young Ewing Allison
About the author
Born in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1853, Young Ewing Allison became a writer and editor despite having only limited formal schooling. Sources agree that he was partially deaf from an early age, and that he turned to reading voraciously and entered newspaper work while still young.
He went on to found Henderson's first daily newspaper, The Chronicle, and later worked in Louisville as a reporter and city editor for The Courier-Journal. He was also active as a poet, essayist, and man of letters, building a reputation in Kentucky literary circles as well as in journalism.
Allison is especially associated with the famous song "My Old Kentucky Home." He wrote The Ballads of Bluegrass and of the Blue Grass School and is noted for preserving and shaping Kentucky traditions in print. He died in Louisville in 1932.