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James Howell Street (
October 15,
1903 –
September 28,
1954) was a
U.S. journalist,
minister, and writer of
Southern historical novels.
Street was born in
Lumberton, Mississippi, in 1903. As a teenager, he began working as a journalist for newspapers in
Laurel and
Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At the age of 20, Street decided to become a
Baptist minister, attending
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and
Howard College. Unsatisfied with his pastoral work after ministering stints in
Missouri,
Mississippi, and
Alabama, Street returned to journalism in
1926.
After briefly holding a position with the
Pensacola, Florida Journal, Street joined the staff of the
Associated Press. The AP position took him to
New York, where he began freelance writing fiction. Hired away from the AP by the
New York World-Telegram in 1937, Street sold a short story ("
A Letter to the Editor") to
Cosmopolitan magazine, which caught the eye of film producer
David Selznick, who turned it into a hit film,
Nothing Sacred.
His success allowed him to write full-time, and throughout the 1940s he worked on a five-novel series of historical fiction about the progress of the Dabney family through the 19th century. The Dabney pentology--
Oh, Promised Land,
Tap Roots,
By Valor and Arms,
Tomorrow We Reap, and
Mingo Dabney--explored classic
Southern issues of
race and
honor, and strongly characterized Street's struggle to reconcile his Southern heritage with his feelings about racial injustice. The series was a critial and popular success, with several of the books being made into feature
films.
Street also published two popular novels about boys and dogs,
The Biscuit Eater and
Good-bye, My Lady, both of which were turned into movies, and a set of semi-autobiographical novels about a Baptist minister,
The Gauntlet and
The High Calling.
Street died of a heart attack on
September 28,
1954.
Major works
- The Biscuit Eater (1939)
- Oh, Promised Land (1940)
- In My Father's House (1941)
- Tap Roots (1942)
- By Valour and Arms (1944)
- The Gauntlet (1945)
- Tomorrow We Reap (1949)
- Mingo Dabney (1950)
- The High Calling (1951)
- Good-Bye, My Lady (1954)
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