U.S. Vice President JD Vance has said and written that his grandmother once set his grandfather on fire. Amid U.S. President ...

Before Vance was a couple of steps away from the most powerful position in the world, he was just a self-proclaimed “hillbilly” raised in the Appalachian mountains, living in poverty ...

The op-ed came two months before the release of Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," which also garnered attention at the time for shining a light on the rise of Trump's popularity with working ...

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the outer fringes of the empire, I certainly was ...

JD Vance's journey from a struggling teen in Middletown, Ohio, to Vice President of the United States is a remarkable tale of ...

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in 2020.

Actor Gabriel Basso and Vice President JD Vance. Basso portrayed Vance in the 2020 film "Hillbilly Elegy." Getty Images Gabriel Basso said he doesn’t have any regrets about portraying Vice Presi ...

Vance wrote about growing up in Middletown and his mom's substance use in his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy." Aikins still lives in Middletown. In a Facebook post, she said she traveled to Washington ...

According to Business Insider, Vance reported earnings of $475,308 in 2021 off royalties from his 2016 memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy." That royalty payday in the year he announced his political ...

Gabriel Basso has offered a more measured view of JD Vance than his Hillbilly Elegy co-stars. Before becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, Vance was known for writing the popular memoir ...