In a career of more than half a century Jesse Stuart produced nearly sixty books. He is still being read, in English or in translation, in England, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Korea, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, and throughout much of South America. He traveled over much of the world as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. He also taught and lectured abroad, and in 1937 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to travel to Scotland and study the literary origins of the Appalachian region from which he came. Recipient of fourteen honorary degrees, Stuart has been known primarily as a popular writer and has enjoyed a large readership. Since World War II he has been more widely known for his prose than for his poetry, but he first...