Dec 17, 2009

Beyond Dark Hills | Beyond Dark Hills

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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Beyond Dark Hills | Beyond Dark Hills

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Form and Content

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