John Fox Jr.
John Fox Jr. | |
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 John Fox Jr. in the frontispiece of a 1911 New York publication of Crittenden | |
| Born | December 16, 1862 Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States |
| Died | July 7, 1919 (aged 56) Big Stone Gap, Virginia, United States |
| Education | Harvard University |
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| Years active | 1883–1919 |
John Fox Jr. (December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
Biography
Born in
Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction.
John Fox Jr. died in 1919 of pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and was buried in the family plot in Paris, Kentucky. His marriage to Austrian opera singer Fritzi Scheff in 1908 lasted just over four years. He had no children.
The John Fox Jr. House in Big Stone Gap was turned into a museum after the death of John's sister in 1970.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[4]
Bibliography
- A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
- Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
- The Kentuckians (1898)
- A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
- Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900)
- Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
- Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904)
- Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905)
- A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)
- The Heart of the Hills (1913)
- In Happy Valley (1917)
- Erskine Dale (1920)
- A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories (1967)
Filmography
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1916, based on the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine)
- Heart o' the Hills, directed by Joseph De Grasse and Sidney Franklin (1919, based on the novel The Heart of the Hills)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, directed by Wallace Worsley (1920, based on the novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come)
- A Cumberland Romance, directed by Charles Maigne (1920, based on the novel A Mountain Europa)
- The Kentuckians, directed by Charles Maigne (1921, based on the novel The Kentuckians)
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Charles Maigne (1923, based on the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine)
- The Hill Billy, directed by George Hill (1924, based on a story by John Fox Jr.)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, directed by Alfred Santell (1928, based on the novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come)
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Henry Hathaway (1936, based on the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen (1961, based on the novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come)
References
- ^ "Trail of the Lonesome Pine State Outdoor Drama". trailofthelonesomepine.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "New Page 1". wright-bates.com.
- ^ John Fox Jr. Museum Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
External links
- Works by John Fox Jr. at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Fox Jr. at Internet Archive
- Works by John Fox Jr. at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Guide to the John Fox Jr., Duncan tavern papers, 1883-1919 housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center
- "John Fox Jr". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
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