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James Still. James Still's award-winning plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. They include He Held Me Grand, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, Amber Waves, The Velocity of Gary, and And Then They Came For Me. He is the recent winner of the William Inge Theatre Festival's New Voices in American ...
James Still. Writer: Little Bear. James Still was born on 31 May 1959 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Little Bear (1995), The Velocity of Gary (1998) and Paz (2005).
Feb 8, 2016 · James Still’s beautiful 1940 novel, River of Earth, is one of the defining works in Appalachian literature. It tells the story of the Baldridge family right at the moment they are leaving their home place in the mountains of eastern Kentucky to seek work in the coal mines. Though the family has been struggling to live off the land, Alpha, the ...
Mar 26, 2012 · James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still was born to Levin and Charity Still, two former slaves living in the Pine Barrens to avoid being captured and sold back into slavery. Although the Still family was poor, the children attended school periodically and had some of their own ...
James Still. For the American playwright, see James Still. James Still (July 16, 1906 – April 28, 2001) was an Appalachian poet, novelist and folklorist. He lived most of his life in a log house along the Dead Mare Branch of Little Carr Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. He was best known for the novel River of Earth, which depicted the struggles ...
Jul 12, 2022 · James Still (1906–2001) remains one of the most beloved and important writers of Appalachian literature. Best known for his acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), the Alabama native and adopted Kentuckian left an enduring legacy of novels, stories, and poems during his nearly seventy-year career.
JAMES STILL’s work has been produced throughout the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He is an elected member of the National Theatre Conference in New York and a Kennedy Center inductee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
