John Fox Jr.

John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist and short story writer. He set most of his fiction in the Appalachian mountains, and several of his books became bestsellers and were made into films, among them The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. He lived in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, where his home is now a museum on the National Register of Historic Places. He married the opera singer Fritzi Scheff and was later inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.