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James Still



James Still (July 16, 1906 – April 28, 2001) was an Appalachian poet, novelist and folklorist who 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.



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