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| Jesse Stuart from the John Jacobs Niles Collection, University of Kentucky Libraries |
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 8, 1906
DATE OF DEATH: Feb. 17, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH: near Riverton, Greenup County, Kentucky
PLACE OF DEATH: Ironton, Ohio
RESIDENCE: W-Hollow, Kentucky; Ironton, Ohio
FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Teaching, Writing, Farming
ASSOCIATED
GROUPS WITH DATE IF KNOWN:
(education,
employers, etc.)Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
U.S. NAVY (WWII)
OCCUPATION: Teacher, writer, poet, farmer
GENDER: Male
AWARDS:
Kentucky Poet Laureate,
1954American Academy of Poets annual award, 1961
TITLES and PUBLICATION DATE
Poetry
- Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, E.P. Dutton & co., 1934
- Album of Destiny, E. P. Dutton & co., inc., 1944
- Kentucky is My Land, Dutton, 1952
- Another April, Jesse Stuart, 1962."Grandpa has welcomed the April spring for ninety-one years, but his strength and health are nolonger what they used to be. This year, his daughter and grandson watch over him as he toddles out to enjoy nature and visit an "old friend."
- Beyond Dark Hills, E.P. Dutton & company, inc., 1938; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1996, ISBN 978-0-945084-53-2
- The Thread that Runs So True. C. Scribner's Sons. 1950.; Dramatic Publishing, 1958, ISBN 978-0-87129-677-1
- The Year of My Rebirth 1956; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1991, ISBN 978-0-945084-17-4
- To Teach, To Love, World Pub. Co., 1970; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1987, ISBN 978-0-945084-02-0
- My World. University Press of Kentucky. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8131-0211-5
- Daughter of the Legend, McGraw-Hill, 1965; J. Stuart Foundation, 1994, ISBN 978-0-945084-42-6
- Trees of Heaven. E.P. Dutton & co.,inc. 1940.; University Press of Kentucky, 1980, ISBN 978-0-8131-0150-7
- Taps for Private Tussie, E.P. Dutton, 1943; World Pub. Co., 1969
- Mongrel Mettle. E.P. Dutton. 1944.
- Foretaste of Glory. E. P. Dutton and Company, inc. 1946.; University Press of Kentucky, 1986, ISBN 978-0-8131-0170-5
- Hie to the Hunters Whittlesey House, 1950; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1996, ISBN 978-0-945084-59-4
- Mr. Gallion's School, McGraw-Hill, 1967
- The Land Beyond the River, McGraw-Hill, 1973, ISBN 9780070622418
- The thread that runs so true, C.
Scribner's Sons, 1950; Scribner, 1977, ISBN
978-0-684-15160-1
- The Beatinest Boy Whittlesey House,
1953; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1989, ISBN
978-0-945084-12-9
- A Penny's Worth of Character, Whittlesey
House, 1954; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1993, ISBN
978-0-945084-32-7
- Red Mule 1955; Jesse Stuart Foundation,
1993, ISBN
978-0-945084-33-4
- A Ride with Huey, the Engineer 1966; Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988, ISBN
978-0-945084-10-5
- Old Ben 1970; Jesse Stuart Foundation,
1992, ISBN
978-0-945084-22-8
- Head o' W-Hollow, E. P. Dutton &
co., inc., 1936; Books for Libraries Press, 1971, ISBN
978-0-8369-4065-7
- Men
of the Mountains. E. P. Dutton & co. 1941.; University Press of Kentucky, 1979, ISBN
978-0-8131-0143-9
- Tales from the Plum Grove Hills E. P. Dutton & Company, inc., 1946; Jesse Stuart Foundation,
1997, ISBN
978-0-945084-62-4
- Plowshares in Heaven, McGraw-Hill, 1958
- Save Every Lamb, McGraw-Hill, 1964
- Dawn of the Remembered Spring, McGraw Hill 1972
- Come Gentle Spring McGraw-Hill, 1969;
Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2008, ISBN
978-1-931672-47-4
- A Jesse Stuart Harvest 1965; Mockingbird
Books, 1976, ISBN
978-0-89176-010-8
- My Land Has a Voice, McGraw-Hill, 1966
- Come Back to the Farm McGraw-Hill, 1971;
Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001, ISBN
978-0-945084-94-5
- 32 Votes Before Breakfast, McGraw-Hill,
1974
- New Harvest: Forgotten Stories of Kentucky's Jesse Stuart, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2003, ISBN
978-1-931672-17-7
- Clearing
in the sky & other stories. University Press of Kentucky. 1984. ISBN 978-0-8131-0157-6.
- Jesse Stuart: His Life and Works, by Everetta Love Blair (University of South Carolina Press, 1967)
- Jesse Stuart, by Ruel E. Foster
(Twayne, 1968)
- Jesse Stuart: An Extraordinary Life, by James M. Gifford and Erin R. Kazee (Jesse Stuart Foundation,
2010)
- Jesse: The Biography of an American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart, by H. Edward Richardson (McGraw-Hill, 1984)
- New Harvest: Forgotten Stories of Kentucky's Jesse Stuart, by David R. Palmore (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2003)
RESOURCES
Jesse Stuart At Home (Click here) Published
on Apr 6, 2015, Jim Wayne Miller interviews Jesse Stuart
regarding Appalachian culture, regionalism and universal motifs in literature.
Digitized from two inch quad video tape through a 2014-2015 internal WKU
Libraries grant.
OTHER INFORMATION:
Father- Mitchell Stuart
Mother-Martha Hilton Stuart
Wife-Naomi Deane Norris (married 1939)
Daughter-Jessica Jane Stuart
