From the jacketflap: Jesse Stuart may have been the most original of twentieth-century writers, and the only one to have achieved so much in so many genres: poetry; the short story; the novel; the essay. Writing poetry "with muscle," he burst upon the national literary scene in 1934 with Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, and was promptly hailed as "a modern American Robert Burns." Especially prolific in the short story, Stuart early distinguished himself by winning the Academy of Arts and Science Awards for his collection Men of the Mountains. There followed countless essays, biography, children's books, novels, autobiography, contributions to newspapers and magazines. Most astonishing of all, perhaps, is that he averaged publishing a book a year for more than half a century of literary production. The emphasis in this book is on Jesse Stuart's life, with authentic, sometimes surprisingly intimate insights into his thoughts and attitudes toward his family, growing up, schooldays, work experiences, college life and friendships, the days of hunger and learning at Vanderbilt, the W-Hollow nights filled with starlight and poetic fire. Through his revelations you sense how he felt about his sudden rise to fame, his encounters with New York City which made him love the hills and hollows of his home all the more. Love and marriage, the World War II years, his literary successes and the first of seven heart attacks are described thought Stuart's eyes and words. here, too, is the twilight of his life - his first paralyzing stroke and then the second, which left him semi-conscious until his death on Feb. 17, 1984, at the age of seventy-seven.

Jesse: The Biography of an American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart

Richardson, H. Edward

McGraw=Hill

Muse of fire: approaches to poetry

KNOPF

A biography of an outspoken Kentuckian who distinguised himself as a soldier, statesman, and an abolitionist.

Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of freedom (The Kentucky bicentennial bookshelf)

Children's Books

University Press of Kentucky

" The most colorful member of Kentucky's most illustrious family, Cassius Marcellus Clay is a legendary figure in the Bluegrass. This lively biography records both the traditions surrounding Clay and the historical facts of his life, which are themselves the stuff of legend. Although Clay was a dedicated emancipationist, his real interest lay in broad issues of human freedom. The story of Clay's True American, his service in the Mexican War, his accomplishments as Lincoln's minister to Russia, and his active post-Civil War political life are all told against the background of the climactic events of a lifetime that spanned almost a century of American history.

Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of Freedom (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Univ Pr of Kentucky

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William Faulkner: The journey to self-discovery

University of Missouri Press

The thirty-four stories in this collection, selected from Stuart's 460 published stories, reveal the variety and range of his fictional world. Some reflect the wonder of growing up, while others portray the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the strong, rough-hewn characters of his world. Running through most of them like a golden thread is Stuart's celebration of the strength and affirmative view of life of his people, and their love for the land. Stuart's own love for the land and its rhythms of life also comes through clearly.

The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

Literature & Fiction

Stuart, Jesse

Contemporary

Jesse Stuart Foundation

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