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Jesse Stuart: Immortal Kentuckian
Jesse Stuart: Immortal Kentuckian examines Stuart's enduring legacy and presents an overview of the broad range of Stuart's accomplishments as an author, educator, conservationist, spokesman for Kentucky and Appalachia, compulsive correspondent, world traveler, father, husband, and community-minded neighbor. [from back of book]
349 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
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October 24, 2016
This is a biography of an American: a man who simply moves forward, finding ways around whatever seems to block him. He grew up in rural Kentucky, the son of a man with no schooling and a woman who'd gone through 2nd grade, yet when he worked in town and saw how the high school kids dressed, he simply got himself some similar clothes and told the principal that he wanted to come to school. His education was limited and his grades less than stellar, but he was admitted.
He did the same thing when he decided to go to college. And when he decided that he wanted to write.
It is this writing that he's most known for: hundreds of books and short stories, thousands of poems. All in the days of New York "owning" what got published and who got promoted, Jesse Stuart was well known as the writer who loved his roots and painted pictures of the rural people and places of Kentucky.
This book was written by the director of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promote Kentucky writers and education for all. It's straightforward and clear, not fawning...a picture of a many, a place, and a time that we all -- somehow -- know as "America."
He did the same thing when he decided to go to college. And when he decided that he wanted to write.
It is this writing that he's most known for: hundreds of books and short stories, thousands of poems. All in the days of New York "owning" what got published and who got promoted, Jesse Stuart was well known as the writer who loved his roots and painted pictures of the rural people and places of Kentucky.
This book was written by the director of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promote Kentucky writers and education for all. It's straightforward and clear, not fawning...a picture of a many, a place, and a time that we all -- somehow -- know as "America."
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