{"id":2096,"date":"2015-03-26T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:50:49","slug":"still-james-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"STILL, JAMES, 1906-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novelist, poet, folklorist; educator, librarian. Born&#8211; July 16, 1906 in Double Creek (Chambers County) , Ala. Parents&#8211; J. Alex and Lonie (Lindsey) Still. Education&#8211; Lincoln Memorial University, A.B.; Vanderbilt University, M.A.; University of Illinois, B.S. (library science). Served in U.S. Army Air Force, WWII. Librarian at Hindman (Ky.) Settlement School, 1932-1939 and 1952-1962;\u00a0professor of\u00a0English\u00a0at Morehead State University, 1962-1971; free-lance writer after 1971.\u00a0 Commentator for &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; on National Public Radio.\u00a0 Member of the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Humanities Council. First Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Received MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 1938; O. Henry Memorial Prize, 1939; Southern Authors Award from Southern Women&#8217;s National Democratic Organization, 1940; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1941-1942; fiction award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1947. Awarded Litt.D. from Berea College, 1973, and L.H.D. from Lincoln Memorial University, 1974. Died April 28, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hounds on the Mountain. New York; Viking Press, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Jack and the Wonder Beans. New York; Putnam, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Patterns of Man &amp; Other Stories. Lexington, Ky.; Gnomon, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>River of Earth. New York; Viking, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>River of Earth, the Poem and Other Poems. Lexington, Ky.; King Library Press, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The Run of the Elbertas. Lexington, Ky.; University Press of Kentucky, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Rusties, Riddles, and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Sporty Creek. New York; Putnam, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek. New York; Putnam, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpen Notebooks; a Record of Appalachian Life. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpen Poems. Berea, Ky.; Berea College Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolfpen Rusties. New York; Putnam, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>On Troublesome Creek. New York; Viking, 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Novelist, poet, folklorist; educator, librarian. Born&#8211; July 16, 1906 in Double Creek (Chambers County) , Ala. Parents&#8211; J. Alex and Lonie (Lindsey) Still. Education&#8211; Lincoln Memorial University, A.B.; Vanderbilt University, M.A.; University of Illinois, B.S. (library science). Served in U.S. Army Air Force, WWII. Librarian at Hindman (Ky.) Settlement School, 1932-1939 and 1952-1962;\u00a0professor of\u00a0English\u00a0at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}