James Still
James Still
James Stillwas an American 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 of coal mining in eastern Kentucky...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 July 1906
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It was pretty fast for me, actually. I worked on it in very concentrated ways. . . .
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But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction.
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That really took the wind out of our sails,