Jesse Hill Ford

In this quiet lament, Mr. Ford conveys the subtle reactions of a civilized man when an animal’s taught gentleness is overcome by the natural instinct to kill. This story will be included in FISHES, BIRDS AND SONS OF MEN. a collection to be published by Atlantic–Little, Brown in the fall.

A new barn makes bad neighbors and leads to violence in this work by a familiar ATLANTIC author. The story will be included in FISHES, BIRDS AND SONS OF MEN, a collection to be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in the fall.

This small album of word pictures tells much about the look, the sound, and the works of seventeen Southern governors in conference assembled. The notes were collected by Mr. Ford, the novelist and short-story writer, during September’s Southern Governors’ Conference at Kentucky Dam Village, Gilbertsville, in western Kentucky. Mr. Ford is at work on a collection of short stories and a new novel.

A Tennessean whose short stories were first published in the pages of the ATLANTIC, Jesse Hill Ford is the author of the novel THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection last summer. Mr. Ford spent the aulunm months as a fellow at Wesleyan s Center for Advanced Studies in Connecticut.

Jesse Hill Ford is a Tennessean in whom the ATLANTIC takes special pride. We published his first short stories, his first novel, MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD,and his first major work, THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES,a novel of the South today which was the midsummer selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Jesse Hill Ford is a Tennessean in whom the ATLANTIC takes special pride. We published his first short stories, his first novel , MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD, and we are about to publish his first major work . THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES, a novel of the South today and the midsummer selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.