James Still

James Still

July 16, 1906 – April 28, 2001
Place of Birth: LaFayette, Alabama, USA
Place of Death: Hazard, Kentucky, USA

James Still (July 16, 1906 – April 28, 2001) was an American poet, novelist and folklorist. He lived most of his life in a log house along the Dead Mare Branch of Little Carr Creek, Knott County, Kentucky. He was best known for the novel River of Earth, which depicted the struggles of coal mining in eastern Kentucky.