Jesse Hill Ford was a Southern writer in the style of William Faulkner, and was hailed by critics as an important new voice in southern literature. He found early success with his short story The Surest Thing in Show Business, and his play The Conversion of Buster Drumwright, but it was his novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones which gained him national acclaim. The thinly disguised story of an actual murder in the town of Humboldt (where he was living), Ford exposed the feelings and racist attitudes of whites in the South., drawing threats from both whites and blacks. On a night in 1970, Ford shot and killed an unarmed black man parked in his driveway; he was indicted and stood trial for second degree murder, but was acquitted in 1971. (December 28, 1928 – June 1, 1996) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Hill_Ford Screenwriting from Iowa | Writing Quote #35 ( Jesse Hill Ford) screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress/tag/jesse-hill-ford/ Jesse Hill Ford, 66, a Novelist Who Wrote of Race Relations June 5, 1996 nytimes/1996/06/05/us/jesse-hill-ford-66-a-novelist-who-wrote-of-race-relations.html Author Denies Intent to Kill Black; Ford Says He Was Worried Sick on Night of Killing July 03, 1971, query.nytimes/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E3DB113FEF34BC4B53DFB166838A669EDE The Homicidal Irony That Shadowed Jesse Hill Ford crimelibrary/notorious_murders/classics/jesse-hill-ford/the-fledgling-writer.html OPEN LIBRARY The liberation of Lord Byron Jones By Jesse Hill Ford https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4308631W/The_liberation_of_Lord_Byron_Jones
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