Is Hillbilly Elegy a true story?

Ohio Senator JD Vance came to the limelight with his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, centred on his troubled childhood and upbringing in rural Kentucky.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,  written by Vance, was later the subject of a star-studded, although controversial, Netflix adaptation in 2020.

The 2016 memoir became a New York Times bestseller and garnered massive traction during the 2016 United States presidential election.

JD Vance once set himself to the Republicans as an alternative to Donald Trump, becoming a critique and questioning his ability to solve the problems of average Americans and branding Trump as “cultural heroin.”

However, over time the Ohio senator became one of the most fervent supporters of  Trump, who rewarded that loyalty on Monday by naming Vance his running mate.

Through a resounding voice vote, the delegates at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee gave the green signal to Vance as the Republican nominee for vice president.

In Vance, Trump has earned a feisty and aggressive ally who is expected to appeal to the former president’s voter base.

James David Vance will turn 40 in August. Just like his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, he has a law degree from Yale, where the two met. They share three children.

Should the Trump-Vance combo win in November, Usha Vance would become the Second Lady of the United States.

Usha Vance has for a long time stayed out of the public eye, working as a litigator at a national law firm.

Vance served four years in the Marines from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent and was deployed to Iraq for six months in late 2005.

Vance went to Middletown High School in his hometown. Once he graduated, Vance enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served as a combat correspondent (military journalist) in the Iraq War, and was assigned to the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

Vance later went to Ohio State University and graduated in 2009 with a BA degree summa cum laude in political science and philosophy.

While a student Ohio State, he worked for Republican Ohio State Senator Bob Schuler.