The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert ... released her best-selling autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter, made into a hit movie four years later. In 1972, she was ...

Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble ... read books by a kerosene lamp until he came home. In her first autobiography, Lynn looked back on her father’s work as something heroic.

The feisty Loretta Lynn writes and performs songs that speak frankly on behalf of women. Charley Pride becomes a country star when people respond to the quality of his voice instead of the color ...