Beyond Dark Hills (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jesse Stuart
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1907-1937
- Setting: Kentucky and Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Jesse Stuart, Mitchell Stuart, Martha Hilton Stuart, Sophia, Mary, Glennis, Herbert, James, Martin, Mitch Stuart
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Memory, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Rural or country life, Depression, economic, God
Form and Content
In the depths of the Great Depression, young Jesse Stuart, a 1929 graduate of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, enrolled in Vanderbilt University with the aim of studying under such writers as Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. Having arrived with little money, Stuart frequently went hungry as he attempted to work his way through graduate school. It was a heartbreaking year. Near its end, in April, 1932, a fire that burned Wesley Hall to the ground destroyed all of his possessions, including his nearly finished thesis...
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