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From: Southern Quarterly
Date: 20030701
Author:Higgins, Anna Dunlap

John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author. By Bill York. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002. $34.00.

The sixth in the Southern Appalachian Studies Series, Bill York's JohnFax, Jr., Appalachian Author is an important addition to the cannon of works about Appalachia and its peoples. Although Warren Titus published a Twayne biography in 1971, Appalachian writer John Fox, Jr. is not an author with whom the average reader in the twenty-first century is familiar. He was known in his day, though. In his fifty-seven years, John Fox, Jr. published over ten books and dozens of short stories and was a ...

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