Coal Miner’s Daughter

This memoir was such a smash, it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. It’s no wonder when the details of Loretta Lynn’s life sound straight out of fiction. And yet it’s all too true: an impoverished childhood in eastern Kentucky, a tumultuous marriage at thirteen, her first child a year later, a grandmother by twenty-nine. If that’s not enough, she signed her first record contract when she was 28, had sixteen #1 singles, and went on to become the CMA’s first female Entertainer of the Year. Lynn shares it all in this raw book.