User:Hunter James

Hunter James was of the truly great introspective writers of the late 20th century. Fortunately, he still around to continue turning the mundane aspects of life into into works of surprising import and penetrating insight. Born in 1932, at the beginning of the Great Depression, he knew hard times, but did not realize what they were, since he had never known anything else. What he remembered best were those long July days in the hot sun pushing an unmotorized hand plow through rows of corn and potaties, beans, peans, squash and almost any other vegetable on can name, all to stay abreast of FDR's mandate that had every family grow its own victory garden. Then came the Great War of the middle century, and then lesser wars as the USA fought to maintain its surpremacy in a world that had nothing but hate for our great country. James wrote extensively, not about the great headline-grabbing issues, but most about how the events of his time affected the ordinary man and woman. His favorite means of communicating his ironic and disaffected view of modern life was the essay, most of them gathered into books. But he also wrote short stories, novels, poems and thousands of news stories that captured the spirit of his time.