Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area is a 1963 book by American historian Harry M. Caudill, which brought national attention to poverty in Appalachia and is credited with making the region a focus of the United States government's "war on poverty".^[1] In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (2004), the book is described as a "definitive text on poverty in Appalachia among journalists, academics, and government bureaucrats concerned with economic inequality in America."^[2]

Night Comes to the Cumberlands

First edition
Author	Harry M. Caudill
Publisher	Little, Brown
Publication date	1963