Sarah Smarsh is a journalist who has reported for The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian and many other publications. Her first book, HEARTLAND: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Smarsh is a frequent political commentator and speaker on socioeconomic class. She lives in Kansas.

Books by Sarah Smarsh

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh - Memoir, Nonfiction, Sociology

An essential read for our times, HEARTLAND is an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country.