From Muddy Creek to Long Leaf PinePaperback, 11 October 2021

From Muddy Creek to the Long Leaf Pine chronicles the life of a remarkable man as he grows from a precocious child in rural North Carolina to a career as an academic in theatre history and literature, founder and artistic director of a professional theatre, academic dean of fine arts at two universities, and recipient of a lifetime achievement award in drama. In 2013, Jim was made Ambassador Extraordinary of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest civilian honor for the state of North Carolina.