num_pages: 240
description: Born in 1935 into abject poverty married at age thirteen and a grandmother by age twenty-nine Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential singers in modern country music. The first woman to be named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Lynn boasts sixteen #1 singles fifteen #1 albums and sixty other hits including Honky Tonk Girl Before I'm Over You  The Pill and After the Fire Is Gone.  Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter a bestseller and the basis of the Oscar-winning film is the intimate revealing story of her journey from eastern Kentucky to Nashville to stardom to legendtold in her own voice which rings as clear natural and powerful as the best of her songs.
language: English
title: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
publisher: Da Capo Press