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Jesse Stuart (August 8, 1907—February 17, 1984)
Jesse Stuart was born August 8, 1907 in W-Hollow, near Riverton, Kentucky, the son of Mitchell and Martha Hilton Stuart. After graduation from local schools, he attended Lincoln Memorial University, graduating in 1929, and went on to attend graduate school at Vanderbilt University and Peabody College. He taught school in Greenup County, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, and served as superintendent of Greenup County schools from 1932 until 1934.
In 1934, his first major book of verse, Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow, appeared, and he received the Jeannette Sewal Davis poetry prize. In 1937, the award of a Guggenheim fellowship allowed him to travel abroad. During World War II he served in the United States Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant (junior grade). He resumed his travels abroad by accepting the position of visiting professor of English and education at the American University, Cairo, Egypt, during 1960 and 1961; in 1962 and 1963 he served as an American specialist abroad for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the State Department. He also traveled in the Middle and Far East as a lecturer for the United States Information Service. He was the recipient of many awards, among them the Academy of Arts and Sciences award, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial award, the Berea College Centennial award for literature, the Academy of American Poets award, several honorary degrees, and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1958 he appeared on Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life! In 1939, he married Naomi Deane Norris; their daughter, Jessica Jane Stuart, is also an accomplished author and poet. Prior to his death on February 17, 1984, Jesse Stuart had been seriously ill and bedfast for four years, following a long history of heart attacks and a massive stroke. He was buried in the Plum Grove cemetery near his home in W-Hollow. For more information on Jesse click here.
Signed, 1934, First edition, Hardcover, 361 pages. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. Book jacket is protected in mylar. Jacket has fading at the spine,...
An easy to read story of Jesse Stuart, which includes many rare photographs. Jimmy Lowe is a Kentucky school teacher who was inspired to write by Jesse...
Signed, 1968, Harvest Press of the Kentucky Writer's Guild, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4th Edition, Hard cover, 34 pages with dust-jacket in fine condition. This book...
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...
1967, Harvest Press. Limited edition to 25 copies, lettered A-Y. This is "B". Produced by David Brandenburg to commerate Jesse Stuart's 60th birthday....
Previously unpublished, this is Stuart's first novel, written in 1932 and covering the frustrating, tumultuous year he spent as superintendent of the Greenup...
Come Back to the Farm is a collection of sixteen stories which reflect Appalachia at its essence; most often they are gentle in tone, but they portray the pioneer...
Come Gentle Spring, a collection of twenty short stories, was first published in 1969. The title clearly reflects Jesse Stuart's philosophy of life,...
In twenty not-so-tall tales about rural politics in the South in rougher and tougher days, Jesse Stuart reminds us afresh that there's nothing new about...
Tim has had an interesting and unique history including four separate printings. Written in the late 1920s when Stuart was a student at Lincoln Memorial University,...
My World chronicles the inspiring story of a poor Kentucky boy who learned how to turn the rough grist of his life into the fine art of literature. Jesse...
This is the journal Stuart kept following his near fatal heart attack in 1955. It was a time of his severest trial yet greatest fulfillment which began in an oxygen...
In The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge, Jesse Stuart provides a tale of the Kentucky hill country which constantly excites, amuses, and amazes. The central character of...
It is a calm September evening in the Kentucky hill town of Blakesburg. Suddenly, the sky is filled with light, brighter than the moon. Thus, Jesse Stuart sets the...
It is a calm September evening in the Kentucky hill town of Blakesburg. Suddenly, the sky is filled with light, brighter than the moon....
Jesse Stuart brings Greece, both ancient and modern, to life with his well loved sense of humor, color, and poetic descriptions. Dandelion on the Acropolis is a...
The complete collection of eight Jesse Stuart Junior Books. Included in this set are: Come to My Tomorrowland, Andy Finds a Way, The Beatinest Boy, A Ride With...
Originally published in 1940, Stuart's first novel introduced his reader to one of the most unforgettable characters of American literature--Boliver Tussie, the...
Chock full of Kentucky hill-folk's lore. . . .Among Mr. Stuart's best creations. --
Stuart's keynote speech before the Indiana Council of Teachers of English in 1971, the subsequent publications by him and about him in the Indiana English...
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