- The author of Appalachian memoir Hillbilly Elegy, author JD Vance, has resigned from the board of a company that uses green technology to mass-produce food in the region, days after sending some.
- Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American author and venture capitalist known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.The book is about the Appalachian values of his upbringing and their relation to the social problems of his hometown. The book was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017.It was a finalist for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBoth JD Vance and Clarence Page proudly grew up in Middletown, Ohio, which represents much of America’s industrial heartland. But when Page, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, read Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, he was distressed to learn that opportunities in his hometown had dwindled greatly since he had been able to work a local manufacturing job to put himself through. Rather, I found it to be an autobiography of a man who really didn't grow up in Appalachia, but was profoundly influenced by its toxic culture, and who beat the odds against him. Vance is obviously very proud of himself. And he should be. But this is not an elegy.
The author of Appalachian memoir Hillbilly Elegy, author JD Vance, has resigned from the board of a company that uses green technology to mass-produce food in the region, days after sending some controversial tweets.
Vance was an early investor in AppHarvest, a mega-greenhouse company that produced its first tomatoes this year at a 300-employee facility in Morehead, Kentucky, the Herald-Leader reported.
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An AppHarvest spokesman, Travis Parman, said “it would not be appropriate for me to discuss his motivation” for leaving the board.
But Vance is also being floated in Ohio as a Republican candidate for the US Senate, and he has drawn criticism in recent days for his opposition to corporate leaders who have stood up against anti-voting rights legislation brought by GOP legislators in several states.
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Last weekend, more than 100 CEOs joined a call to discuss how to respond to recent proposals in state legislatures to restrict voting rights, most notably in Georgia. Vance said in a recent tweet states should “raise their taxes and do whatever else is necessary to fight these goons”.
One recent proposal from the CEOs was to pull back donations for politicians who support such legislation. Republicans have been the overwhelming backers of anti-voting rights legislation and would disproportionately benefit from them. GOP legislators have often cited falsehoods about election fraud pushed by former president Donald Trump as justification for the new restrictions.
Vance’s most monied donors are well-known Trump supporters. A super Pac supporting Vance’s US Senate bid received a $10m donation from Peter Thiel, his former employer and, at one time, an enthusiastic Trump supporter. The donation is Thiel’s largest ever political gambit.
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Vance has also received donations from the hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer. The billionaire Trump supporter is perhaps best known for backing uber-conservative Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica, a firm embroiled in a controversial>© Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images JD Vance, venture capitalist and author of Hillbilly Elegy, is being floated as a Republican Senate candidate in Ohio.