In Vance’s best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he wrote that his late grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” helped keep him on the straight-and-narrow path while growing up in the ...

His happiest times came when he stayed with his maternal grandparents. “Home” was with his grandparents (“Mamaw” – pronounced ma’am-aw – and “Papaw” (Bonnie Blanton and Jim Vance) in Jackson, Kentucky ...

In Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy,” he credits “Mamaw” with grounding him while growing up as his mother struggled with drug addiction. In December, Paul Horn said Bonnie Vance lived ...

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As he did in his memoir, Vance credits his grandmother “Mamaw,” with helping him overcome a harrowing childhood. “I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely ...

Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio where his father left when he was young and his mother battled a drug addiction. Growing up, he spent a lot of time with his grandmother, who he called Mamaw.

Both Trump and Vance verbally attacked Ukraine President ... He was raised by his grandparents, “Mamaw” and “Papaw”, whom he sympathetically portrayed in Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about ...

and he found refuge in Mamaw's house. When he married, both JD and his wife Usha took the last name of Vance to honour his maternal grandparents' family name - leading to his current name ...

In Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy,” he credits “Mamaw” with grounding him while growing up while his mother struggled with drug addiction. In December, Paul Horn said Bonnie Vance lived ...