January 15, 1961

Author and professor Hope Coulter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She spent her early years in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and later returned to the state after studying at Harvard University. She published two novels with August House, as well as short fiction and poetry in a variety of national journals. In 1989, she was awarded the Porter Prize for her fiction. Coulter published a children’s book, Uncle Chuck’s Truck, in 1993 with Bradbury Press and began teaching creative writing at Hendrix College in Conway (Faulkner County) that same year.