| 1906 |
James Still born in Lafayette, Alabama |
| 1929 |
graduated from Lincoln Memorial University |
| 1931 |
moved to Hindman in Knott County, Kentucky |
| 1937 |
Hounds on the Mountain (poems) |
| 1939 |
moved to log house on Wolfpen Creek |
| 1940 |
River of Earth (novel); Southern Author award |
| 1942-45 |
served in U.S. Army Air Corps in Africa and Middle East |
| 1947 |
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award; National Institute of Arts and Letters Award |
| 1971 |
first trip to Central/South America to study Mayan ruins |
| 1976 |
Pattern of a Man (stories) |
| 1977 |
Jack and the Wonder Beans chosen as one of the Best Illustrated Books of the Year by the New York Times |
| 1978 |
Weatherford Award for lifetime contribution to Appalachian literature |
| 1986 |
The Wolfpen Poems |
| 1991 |
The Wolfpen Notebooks |
| 1995 |
named to a two-year term as Poet Laureate of Kentucky |
| 1996 |
90th birthday celebration at Hindman Settlement School |
| 2001 |
James Still dies at 94; From the Valley, From the Mountain: New and Collected Poems published posthumously |
