Tuesday 4 November 2014

In what year was "The Moving" by James Still published?

James Still was born on July 16, 1906 in Alabama, moved to Tennessee for university studies, and eventually settled in Knott County, Kentucky where he lived until his death on April 28, 2001. His work mainly focused on realistically portraying life in the rural Appalachian mountains.


Stills' archives are maintained at Berea College and include manuscript versions of many of his most important works. From this archival material, it appears that "The Moving" was written in 1955;...

James Still was born on July 16, 1906 in Alabama, moved to Tennessee for university studies, and eventually settled in Knott County, Kentucky where he lived until his death on April 28, 2001. His work mainly focused on realistically portraying life in the rural Appalachian mountains.


Stills' archives are maintained at Berea College and include manuscript versions of many of his most important works. From this archival material, it appears that "The Moving" was written in 1955; you can find additional details here


The first publication of the story in a book was in a collection of short stories: 


James Still. The Run for the Elbertas. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1980. Foreward by Cleanth Brooks.


There may have been an earlier publication in a literary magazine, but the short story collection does not give specific previous publication data for "The Moving."


Next, the story was reprinted in an edited collection:


Robert Shapard and ‎James Thomas, eds. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith 1986.


One can also find the story in the recent collected edition:


Still, James. The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still. Edited by Ted Olson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.

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