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Jesse Hill Ford (December 28, 1928 – June 1, 1996) was an American writer of Southern literature, best known for his critical and commercial success in short fiction as well as the novels Mountains of Gilead and The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. Biography. He was born in Troy, Alabama on December 28, 1928.
Oct 8, 2017 · Jesse Hill Ford. Written by John V. Glass. 3 minutes to read. For a short time in the early 1960s, Jesse Hill Ford seemed to be establishing himself as an important new voice in southern literature. After winning an Atlantic Monthly prize in 1959 for his short story “The Surest Thing in Show Business,” Ford published a promising first novel ...
Sep 1, 2023 · Jesse Hill Ford. Writer Jesse Hill Ford (1928-1996) is remembered as much for his influence on aspiring writers as for his own works. Ford was one of a handful of writers in the 1960s who had the courage to expose the evils of the Jim Crow South. He was also a dedicated educator who shaped the careers of many current writers.
Jun 5, 1996 · Jesse Hill Ford, the novelist whose haunting examination of the destructive relations between the races in his native South helped sow the seeds of destruction of his own acclaimed literary career ...
August 1965 Issue. by Ralph McGill. WHEN I had finished leading Jesse Hill Ford’s novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, I sat dunking for a long time. The characters were strongly alive and ...
- Ralph Mcgill
Jesse Hill Ford's novel Liberation of Lord Byron Jones (1965) was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, translated into eleven languages, and made into a major motion picture. Then, in 1970, Ford accidentally killed a black GI. The jury acquitted him, but the press did not.
Jesse Hill Ford Writer and educator Jesse Hill Ford (1928-1996) wrote novels, short stories, and editorials that tackled the brutality of the Jim Crow South. Appears In
