Jim Wayne Miller

Reared in western North Carolina on a farm in Buncombe County near his maternal and paternal grandparents, Jim Wayne Miller completed his undergraduate work at Berea College in 1958 and earned his doctorate in German literature at Vanderbilt University in 1965. Throughout his professional life, he taught German at Western Kentucky University....

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The Brier Poems by Jim Wayne Miller

Appalachian Heritage ◽

10.1353/aph.1997.0008 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 66-68

Author(s):

Mary Jo Thomas

Keyword(s):

Jim Wayne Miller

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Jim Wayne Miller

Appalachian Heritage ◽

10.1353/aph.1987.0019 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 12-12

Author(s):

Artie Ann Bates

Keyword(s):

Jim Wayne Miller

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Jim Wayne Miller: Chronological Bibliography

Appalachian Heritage ◽

10.1353/aph.1997.0047 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 51-54

Author(s):

George Brosi

Keyword(s):

Jim Wayne Miller

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Loyal Jones

Writing Appalachia ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0064 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 439-442

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Great Smoky Mountains ◽

Development Organization ◽

Appalachian Literature ◽

Berea College ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

Smoky Mountains ◽

Jim Wayne Miller ◽

The 1960S ◽

The University

Loyal Jones was born near the Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee County, North Carolina, and was reared there and in nearby Clay County. After earning degrees from Berea College (1954) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1961), he spent five years directing the Council of the Southern Mountains, a community development organization. From 1970 to 1993 he directed Berea’s Appalachian Center, which is named in his honor. Jones helped shape Appalachian literature in the 1960s by advocating for the publication of Appalachian authors such as Gurney Norman and Jim Wayne Miller in the council’s periodical ...

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