J.D. Vance discusses "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" with David M. Rubenstein at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.The author of the New York Times No.1 best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis", J.D.Vance was raised in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky.His book has struck a chord in the national zeitgeist.Vance writes sympathetically about the poverty and low wages in the places where he grew up while simultaneously raising questions about personal responsibility.