Carolyn Chute Quotes


We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.


Citations

Goldberg, Carey. "A Writer and Her Militia." The New York Times, 2 Nov. 1995.

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  • Born: June 14, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Carolyn Chute is an American writer and populist political activist strongly identified with the culture of poor, rural western Maine. Rod Dreher, writing in The American Conservative, has referred to Chute as "a Maine novelist and gun enthusiast who, along with her husband, lives an aggressively unorthodox life in the Yankee backwoods." She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award.