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James Kilgo (died 2002) was an American essayist and novelist, known for writing about nature. He was a professor at the University of Georgia.
He published Inheritance of Horses, a collection of essays, in 1994. He won the Townsend Prize for Fiction in 2000 for his book Daughter of My People.
Kilgo died on December 8, 2002. In 2011, he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
Bibliography
- Deep Enough for Ivorybills (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988)
- Inheritance of Horses (University of Georgia Press, 1994)
- The Blue Wall: Wilderness of the Carolinas and Georgia (Westcliffe, 1996)
- Daughter of My People (University of Georgia Press, 1998)
- The Hand-Carved Creche and other Christmas Memories (Hill Street Press, 1999)
- The Colors of Africa (University of Georgia Press, 2003)
- Ossabaw: Evocations of an Island (with Jack Leigh, Alan Campbell) (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
References
- "James Kilgo, 61, Who Wrote on Nature".
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/30/arts/james-kilgo-61-who-wrote-on-nature.html
- "Townsend Prize for Fiction". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- "James Patrick Kilgo | Georgia Writer's Hall of Fame". www.georgiawritershalloffame.org.