![]() ![]() Her most successful novels, Storming Heaven (1987) and The Unquiet Earth (1992), feature the fictitious coal miners Rondal Lloyd and Dillon Freeman making their hard way in central Appalachia, circa 1890–1990. In her first five novels, all historical fiction, Giardina depicts Henry V in pre-Renaissance England in Good King Harry (1984) Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1930s–40s Nazi Germany in Saints and Villains (1998) and in Fallam’s Secret (2003) she explores the subject of time travel. She is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church. in 1979 from the Virginia Theological Seminary. ![]() ![]() from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1973 and an M. She is best known as a novelist and also has a long history of community activism, including a run for governor of West Virginia. She lived during her early years in a coal company town in neighboring McDowell County and later in Kanawha County, where she graduated from high school. Writer and American Book Award winner Denise Giardina was born October 25, 1951, in Bluefield. ![]()
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