Jesse H. Stuart

 

Jesse Stuart from the John Jacobs Niles Collection,
University of Kentucky Libraries

Jesse Hilton Stuart                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, 1954
American 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."

Autobiographical

• 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 

Novels

• 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

For Young Readers

• 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

Short story collections

• 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. 

Books About Jesse Stuart

• 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 Foundation (click here)  

Jesse Stuart, Obituary from New York Times (Click here)

 

Jesse Stuart: A man of the country, a man of the world, Kentucky Monthly (Click here)  

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.

Jesse Stuart on KET (Click here)  

Jesse Stuart on Wikipedia

 

OTHER INFORMATION:

Father- Mitchell Stuart

Mother-Martha Hilton Stuart

Wife-Naomi Deane Norris (married 1939)

Daughter-Jessica Jane Stuart