Background
Mr. Ford Jr. was born in Troy, Alabama, United States, in 1928. He was raised in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Novel set amid an historical race riot in Florida. Jesse Hill Ford was a Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow known for his realistic Southern literature during the civil rights era.
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Mr. Ford Jr. was born in Troy, Alabama, United States, in 1928. He was raised in Nashville, Tennessee.
He attended Montgomery Bell Academy and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University. His education was interrupted by the Korean War, during which he served in the United States Navy. Following his discharge, Mr. Ford enrolled in the University of Florida, where he received a Master of Arts in 1955.
In 1961, he received a Fulbright scholarship to attend the University of Oslo in Norway.
After graduation Jesse Ford worked as a public relations director, but in 1957 he decided to devote himself to writing on a full-time basis. He and his family moved to Humboldt, Tennessee. In 1961 he spent a year in Oslo and published his first novel, Mountains of Gilead, and in 1964 he wrote both the teleplay and theatrical scripts of The Conversion of Buster Drumwright. One year later, Mr. Ford published The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, which was selected by the Book of the Month Club. A critical and commercial success, it earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction writing, and was later adapted by Ford and Stirling Silliphant for a 1970 feature film directed by William Wyler.
In 1971, Jesse Ford shot a black soldier, Pvt. George Henry Doaks Jr., 19, he believed was a threat to his 17-year-old son, Charles, when he saw Doaks' car parked on his private driveway. Coincidentally, the man's female companion was a relative of the woman who had served as the basis for The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. He also contributed guest columns to USA Today in 1989 and 1990, after changing from political liberal to hard-core conservative. Without former Atlantic Monthly editor Edward Weeks to encourage and shape his work, he was unable to successfully write literary fiction, although he continued to play the role of Southern gentleman/author.
Mr. Ford was initially indicted on a charge of first degree murder by a Gibson County Grand Jury and released on $20,000 bond at the preliminary hearing.
He eventually returned to Nashville where, severely depressed following open-heart surgery and the publication of his collected letters, he committed suicide on June 1, 1996.
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On November 15, 1975, Mr. Ford married Lillian Pellitieri Chandler.
