Online Resources

The James Still Homepage, maintained by Sandy Hudock at Colorado State University, includes the autobiographical essay Still wrote for the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, poems, audio files, and lots of other links.

James Still from the Literary Encyclopedia

Biography by Dr. Stephen D. Mooney, from his Appalachian literature course at Virginia Tech

In Terrain of the Heart, novelist Lee Smith talks about the influence of James Still and River of Earth.

Tribute to James Still by Carol Boggess, written for his funeral in 2001

Obituary from an Eastern Kentucky genealogy site; originally appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader

A Celebration of James Still by writer Beto Cumming

Roberts, Still, Stuart & Warren—an essay on four Kentucky writers by H.R. Stoneback, from Kentucky Humanities magazine

First James Still Fellow—Christina Parker is a remembrance of Still from the first recipient of the University of Kentucky’s James Still Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Essays on Still’s work:

• River of Earth: A Neglected American Masterpiece by Tom Rau
• Both Certain and Enduring: Alpha’s Connection to the Earth in James Still’s River of Earth by Stephanie Baker
• “Menfolks Are Heathens”: Cruelty in James Still’s Short Stories by Fred Chappell
• Movement and Stasis in James Still’s “Heritage” by Georgia Steinhardt