Personal Information
- Born in 1936 , in Buncombe , NC.
Here are some other books by the author:
Fiction
• The Wisdom of Folk Metaphor: The Brier Conducts a Laboratory Experiment , Seven Buffaloes, 1988
• Newfound, Orchard, 1989
• His First, Best Country, Gnomon, 1993
Juvenile Fiction
• A Penny's Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1986, Editor
• The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988, Editor
• A Ride with Huey the Engineer, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988, Editor
• The Rightful Owner, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988
Non-Fiction
• Reading, Writing, Region: A Checklist and Purchase Guide for School and Community Libraries, Appalachian Consortium, 1984
• Sideswipes, Seven Buffaloes, 1986
• A Jesse Stuart Reader, Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988
• The Examined Life: Family, Community, and Work in American Literature, Appalachian Consortium, 1990
• A Gathering at the Forks: Fifteen Years of the Hindman Settlement School Appalachian Writers Workshop, Vision Books, 1992
• Southern Mountain Speech, Berea College, 1992, Editor
• Appalachia Inside Out, U of Tennessee, 1994
Poetry
• Copperhead Cane, Robert Moore Allen, 1964
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, Whippoorwill, 1971
• Dialogue with a Dead Man, U of Georgia, 1974
• Emil Lerperger: The Figure of Fulfillment, Green River, 1975, Translation
• The Mountains Have Come Closer, Appalachian Consortium, 1980 (Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award recipient)
• I Have a Place, Appalachian Learning Laboratory, 1981, Editor
• Vein of Words, Seven Buffaloes, 1984
• The Salzach Sibyl, Green River, 1985, Translation
• Nostalgia for Seventy, Seven Buffaloes, 1986
• Songs of a Mountain Plowman, Jesse Stuart Foundation and Morehead State UP, 1986, Editor
• The Wolfpen Poems, Berea College, 1986, Editor
• Brier, His Book, Gnomon, 1988
• Round and round with Kahlil Gibran, Rowan Mountain, 1990
• The Brier Poems, Gnomon, 1997
Theatrical Production Fiction
• His First, Best Country, 1992
