# 22 DIVINE RIGHTS TRIP
| Author : | Gurney Norman ALLAIS, KY |
| Artist : | Anthony Adams LEXINGTON, KY |
| Sponsor : | Lextran |
Gurney Norman (1937): Divine Rights Trip
Gurney Norman grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky and was educated at the University of Kentucky and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He has been a UK English professor since the 1970s. His novel, Divine Rights Trip, was first published episodically in the margins of the 1971 The Last Whole Earth Catalog and subsequently by the Dial Press and Bantam Books. This epic counterculture novel is set in the 1960s and chronicles the westward journey of David Ray Davenport, a.k.a. “Divine Right,” and his girlfriend Estelle in a Volkswagen bus named “Urge” that is filled with an ample supply of pot and hallucinogens. Ultimately, this novel is a “trip within a trip” in search of a new consciousness. The novel has often been compared to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and J. D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.
Agustin Zarate:
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I chose to illustrate C.E. Morgan’s book, The Sport of Kings. The story takes us through three generations of a farm family, from crops to thoroughbred breeding. We see their desire for greatness, interrupted by the frailties of man, by racism, by the divide between rich and poor. Agustin Zarate is an artist living in Lexington, Ky.