Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Writing AppalachiaAn Anthology$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Writing Appalachia: An Anthology

Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9780813178790

Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2020

DOI: 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.001.0001

ContentsFRONT MATTER
Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM KENTUCKY SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.kentucky.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright The University Press of Kentucky, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in KSO for personal use.date: 04 July 2022

James Still

James Still

1906–2001

Chapter:
(p.241) James Still
Source:
Writing Appalachia
Author(s):
Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0034

Many people are surprised to learn that James Still was not a native of eastern Kentucky but of central Alabama, for his name has become synonymous with Appalachian literature. Many of his short stories and poems as well as his novel River of Earth (1940) are set in Knott County, Kentucky, where he worked at the Hindman School and lived for almost all of his adult life. Still’s work delves deeply into the lives of people and communities in one corner of Appalachia but simultaneously speaks to experiences in rural places and small towns everywhere. His writing also explores nature and the individual’s relationship to it....

Kentucky Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .