![]() The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, directed by Andrew V.She Had Never Been Up There Before., by Frederick Coffay Yohn, c.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 Alfred Santell (1928, based on the novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come).The Hill Billy, directed by George Hill (1924, based on a story by John Fox Jr.).The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Charles Maigne (1923, based on the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine).The Kentuckians, directed by Charles Maigne (1921, based on the novel The Kentuckians).A Cumberland Romance, directed by Charles Maigne (1920, based on the novel A Mountain Europa).The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, directed by Wallace Worsley (1920, based on the novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come).Heart o' the Hills, directed by Joseph De Grasse and Sidney Franklin (1919, based on the novel The Heart of the Hills).DeMille (1916, based on the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Cecil B.A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories (1967).Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905).Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904).The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903).Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901).Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900).A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899).Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897).A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. House in Big Stone Gap was turned into a museum after the death of John's sister in 1970. His marriage to Austrian opera singer Fritzi Scheff in 1908 lasted just over four years. died in 1919 of pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and was buried in the family plot in Paris, Kentucky. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. In The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the character Devil Judd Tolliver was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, the sheriff of Wise County, Virginia. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the " Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University. Born in Stony Point, Kentucky, to John William Fox Sr.
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