James Baker Hall Quotes

James Baker Hall was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. He was an American poet, novelist, photographer and teacher. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in English. In 1960, he received a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. In 1973, he came back to Lexington to teach at the University of Kentucky and, for the next thirty years, would act as director of the creative writing program. In 2003, he retired as professor emeritus, having vastly influenced the next generation of Kentucky writers. He wrote several books include: The total light process, Praeder's letters(novel), Stopping on the edge to wave, and The Mother on the Other Side of the World: Poems.