Biography:

Author; college professor. Born– November 22, 1899, in Short Creek, Jefferson County, Ala. Parents– Lawrence James and Mary Frances Vines. Married– Alma Huey. Children– One. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; Harvard, A.M. Taught English at Rice Institute (1925-27), University of Richmond (1928-29) and Shorter College (1931-32).  After 1932 lived in Hueytown and later in Montgomery and worked as a free-lance writer. Published stories in Atlantic Monthly and Southern Review.  Died May 30, 1981.

Source:

Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939; The Alabama Librarian, Jan. 1952; Encyclopedia of Alabama.

Publication(s):

This Green Thicket World. Boston; Little, Brown, 1934.

A River Goes With Heaven. Boston; Little, Brown, 1930.