KPR Presents: Sarah Smarsh on Dolly Parton

By Kaye McIntyre

Published June 27, 2021 at 3:53 PM CDT

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Conversation with Sarah Smarsh, Part 2

Week of June 27, 2021: Dolly Parton -- country music superstar, pop culture icon, and...feminist? Best-selling Kansas author Sarah Smarsh joins us to talk about her latest book, "She Come by it Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs." This conversation originally aired on KPR Presents on November 22, 2020.

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and The Moth Radio Hour. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents, which changed its name in 2025 to Prairie Journal. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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