Background
Ford, Jesse Hill was born on December 28, 1928 in Troy, Alabama, United States. Son of Jesse Hill and Lucille (Musgrove) Ford.
(The play portrays the events surrounding the attempt of a...)
The play portrays the events surrounding the attempt of a family of mountain people in East Tennessee to avenge the murder of one of the members of the family was originally written for television and was later adapted by the author for stage production. The television script is exactly forty-seven minutes long, following the rigorously confined standards for television plays.
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Ford, Jesse Hill was born on December 28, 1928 in Troy, Alabama, United States. Son of Jesse Hill and Lucille (Musgrove) Ford.
Bachelor, Vanderbilt University, 1951. Master of Arts, University Florida, 1955. Postgraduate (Fulbright scholar), University Oslo, Norway, 1962.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Lambuth College, 1968.
Ford was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. His education was interrupted by the Korean War, during which he served in the United States Navy. Following his discharge, he enrolled in the University of Florida, where he received a Master of Arts in 1955.
After graduation he 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 at the University of Oslo as a Fulbright Scholar 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, 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, Ford shot a black soldier, Private
George Henry Doaks Junior., 19, he believed was a threat to his 17-year-old son, Charles, when he saw Doaks" car parked on his private driveway. He also contributed guest columns to United States of America 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
He 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.
(The play portrays the events surrounding the attempt of a...)
(Liberation Of Lord Byron Jones, The, by Ford, Jesse Hill)
(His first book, set in west Tennessee.)
(Dust jacket design by Carl Smith.)
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1951-1953. Member Cum Laude Society Clubs: Overseas Press.
Married Lillian Pellettieri, November 15, 1975. Children: Jay, Charles Davis, Sarah Ann, Elizabeth.