A short-story writer of sensitivity who has lived for most of his career in the mountains of Kentucky, JAMES STILL is the librarian at Berea College and the author of tales which hare perfectly reproduced the sound and savor of the Elizabethan language that survives in those remote uplands.
Poet and short-story writer, JAMES STILL has done much of his creative writing in that remote, picturesque stronghold, the Kentucky mountains. For years he was the librarian of the Hindman Settlement School at the forks of Troublesome Creek, and he has been the laureate oj the mountaineers. In 1910 he shared honors with Thomas Wolfe in the Southern Authors’ Award, for his novel River of Earth.Since then he has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and his short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories of 1946, 1950, and 1952.
Poet and short-story Writer, JAMES STILL, tins dour much of his creative writing in that remote. picturesque stronghold, the Kentucky mountains. For years he was the librarian of the Hindman Settlement School at the forks of Troublesome Creek, and he has been the laureate of the mountaineers. In 1940 he shared honors with Thomas Wolfe in the Southern Authors’ Award, for his novel River of Larlh.
A booklover with a wonderfully true ear for the mountaineer’s speech, JAMES STILL was the librarian of the , Hindman Settlement School at the forks of Troublesome Creek in the Kentucky mountains when the Atlantic published his first short story in 1936. In 1940 he shared honors with Thomas Wolfe in the Southern Authors Award, for his novel River of Earth. After serving as a Technical Sergeant in the Army Air Forces during the tear, Mr. Still has returned to the mountains and is now living and writing near Wolfpen Track.