John Fox, Jr.
Date of birth: Dec. 16, 1862
Date of death: July 8, 1919
Birthplace: Stony Point, Bourbon County, Kentucky
Place of death: Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Place of burial: Paris, Kentucky
Life Events: Married Fritzi Scheff in 1908
Education: Harvard University
Employment: New York Times, New York Sun, Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s magazine.
Publications:
A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
The Kentuckians (1898)
A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
Crittenden (1900)
Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904)
Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905)
A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)
The Heart of the Hills (1913)
In Happy Valley (1917)
Erskin Dale (1920)
A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories (1967)
Other Resources
John Fox, Jr. at Wikipedia
John Fox, Jr. House
John Fox, Jr. at The Literature Network
John Fox, Jr. at Virginia Encyclopedia
John Fox, Jr. Museum
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
James Still
Date of birth: July 16, 1906
Date of death: April, 28, 2001
Birthplace: LaFayette, Alabama
Place of death/burial: Hazard, Kentucky
Residence: Knott County, Kentucky
Education: Lincoln Memorial University (B.A.1929), Vanderbilt University (M.A. 1930), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Employment: Civil Service Corps, U.S. Army, salesman, librarian, professor
Awards: Southern Author's Award - River of Earth
Publications:
Hounds on the Mountain (1937)
River of Earth (1940)
On Troublesome Creek (1941)
Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek: Appalachian Riddles and Rusties (1974)
The Wolfpen Rusties: Appalachian Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles (1975)
Pattern of a Man (1976)
Jack and the Wonder Beans (1977)
Sporty Creek: A Novel about an Appalachian Boyhood (1977)
The Run for the Elbertas (1980)
The Wolfpen Poems (1986)
From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems (2001)
Chinaberry (2011)
The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still (2012)
Other Resources
James Still at Ashville Poetry Review, article by Carol Boggess, Oct. 25, 2003
James Still at Kentucky.com
James Still at Wikipedia
James Still Collection at Berea College
James Still Papers at the University of Kentucky Libraries
James Still's River of Earth at KET
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
