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Jesse Stuart (Jesse Hilton Stuart) was born on 8 August, 1906 in Riverton, Kentucky, United States, is an American poet. Discover Jesse Stuart's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Jesse Hilton Stuart
Occupation Author, educator
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 8 August 1906
Birthday 8 August
Birthplace Riverton, Kentucky, United States
Date of death 17 February, 1984
Died Place Ironton, Ohio, US
Nationality United States

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1906

Jesse Hilton Stuart (August 8, 1906 – February 17, 1984) was an American writer, school teacher, and school administrator who is known for his short stories, poetry, and novels as well as non-fiction autobiographical works set in central Appalachia.

Born and raised in Greenup County, Kentucky, Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of northeastern Kentucky for his writings.

Jesse Stuart was born near Riverton, Greenup County, Kentucky, to Mitchell and Martha (Hilton) Stuart on August 8, 1906.

Stuart served in the US Navy during World War II but did not see combat as his mission in his life.

1923

He wrote his first short story "Nest Egg" when he was a sophomore in high school in 1923.

The story is of a rooster at his farm, whose behavior was so dominant that it began attracting hens from other farms, leading to conflict with the neighbors.

1934

One day while Stuart was plowing in the field, he stopped and wrote the first line of a sonnet: "I am a farmer singing at the plow," the first line of the 703 sonnets he would collect in Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1934).

The book was described by Irish poet George William Russell (who wrote poetry under the name of AE) as the greatest work of poetry to come out of America since Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass.

1939

In 1939, Stuart married Naomi Deane Norris, a school teacher.

They settled in W Hollow and had one daughter, Jessica Jane.

In Stuart's memoir, The Thread That Runs So True, he explains how he met Norris at Lonesome Valley.

He was in college while she was still in high school; in fact, Stuart taught Norris in her last year of school.

After being denied admission at three colleges, Stuart was finally accepted at and attended Lincoln Memorial University, located in Harrogate, Tennessee.

After graduating he returned to his home area and taught at Warnock High School in Greenup, Kentucky.

Later he was appointed principal at McKell High School, but resigned after one year to attend graduate school at Vanderbilt University, where Edwin Mims was one of his professors.

He then served as superintendent of the Greenup County Schools before ending his career as an English teacher at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, Ohio.

One of his most anthologized stories is "Split Cherry Tree," first published in Esquire, January 1939.

In this story, a high school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse keeps a boy after school to work and pay for damage he did to a cherry tree.

The boy's uneducated father comes to school to argue with the teacher, but comes to appreciate the value of higher education.

The theme of education appears often in Stuart's books.

1940

Stuart's first novel was Trees of Heaven (1940).

Set in rural Kentucky, the novel tells the story of Anse Bushman, who loves working the land and wants more land.

Stuart's style is simple and sparse.

1943

Taps for Private Tussie (1943) is perhaps his most popular novel, selling more than a million copies in only two years.

The novel also received critical praise and won the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Award for the best Southern book of the year.

Twenty years later, he submitted the story unchanged to the Atlantic Monthly, which accepted the story and published it in February 1943; it was later collected in Tales from Plum Grove Hills.

1949

He described the role that teaching played in his life in The Thread that Runs So True (1949), though he changed the names of places and people.

He first taught school in rural Kentucky at the age of 16 at Cane Creek Elementary School, which became Lonesome Valley in his book.

The Thread that Runs So True (1949) has become a classic of American education.

1954

Stuart was named the poet laureate of Kentucky in 1954.

Stuart was named poet laureate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1954, and in 1961 he received the annual award from the American Academy of Poets.

1968

Ruel Foster, a professor at West Virginia University, noted in 1968 that the book had good sales in its first year.

At the time, he wrote, sales for the book had gone up in each successive year, an astonishing feat for any book.

The book has remained continuously in print for more than 50 years.

1974

In 1974, Gale Research (in American Fiction, 1900-1950) identified Jesse Stuart as one of the forty-four novelists in the first half of the 20th century with high critical acclaim.

Jesse Stuart was the second youngest of that group (William Saroyan was one year younger).

Stuart published about 460 short stories.

1982

In May 1982, Jesse Stuart suffered a stroke that left him comatose.

1984

Stuart died on February 17, 1984, at Jo-Lin Nursing Home, near his boyhood home, in Ironton, Ohio.

He was 77 years old.