James Still

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