Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by current U.S. vice president-elect JD Vance about … See more

Vance describes his upbringing and family background while growing up in Middletown, Ohio, where his mother and her family had moved after World War II from Breathitt County, Kentucky.
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In July 2016, Hillbilly Elegy was popularized by an interview with Vance in The American Conservative. The volume of requests briefly disabled the website. Halfway through August, The New York Times wrote that the titl… See more

The book reached the top of The New York Times best seller list in August 2016 and January 2017.
In a positive review in The New York Times, Jennifer Senior wrote that Vance's confrontati… See more

In 2017, Vance signed an $8 million deal to write a sequel to Hillbilly Elegy. See more

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