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- His parents—Don and Bev Bowman—came from Scots-Irish ancestry. He has an elder half sister, Lindsay, to whom Bev gave birth a few weeks after graduating from high school. When James was a young child, his parents divorced. His mother later changed his middle name to David, and he eventually took his mother’s maiden name, Vance, as his surname.
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Nov 24, 2020 · Bev Vance, the mother of J.D. Vance, is a former nurse and a recovering addict who overcame her problems and became sober. She works as a house cleaner and a bookkeeper and spends time with her children and grandchildren.
James David Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton, as James Donald Bowman, the son of Donald Bowman and Bev Vance. Of Scots-Irish descent, [5] [3] [6] [7] his mother and father divorced when Vance was a toddler.
Nov 4, 2020 · When J.D.'s mother, Beverly Vance, was spiraling out of control with addiction, his grandmother (Mamaw), who is portrayed by Glenn Close in the film, stepped in and raised his older sister Lindsay and him. J.D. describes his grandparents as filling in the gaps when his mother was unfit for the role.
May 13, 2024 · His mother struggled for years with drug and alcohol use disorders, and Vance was raised mostly by his maternal grandparents, who had relocated to Middletown from the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky. His family was one of numerous families in Middletown with Appalachian roots.
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Dec 24, 2019 · Bev Vance was a promising student who married young and had two children, but struggled with addiction, abuse, and instability. Her son JD Vance describes her as a product of the hillbilly culture that he tried to escape in his book Hillbilly Elegy.
Aug 17, 2016 · J.D. Vance grew up in a Rust Belt town in Ohio, in a family from the hills of eastern Kentucky. His new memoir details the social isolation, poverty and addiction that afflict poor white...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a bestselling 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
