Jeff Daniel Marion (b. 1940)

Biography

Jeff Daniel Marion was born in Rogersville, Tennessee, in 1940. Currently he lives by the Holston River near Jefferson City, Tennessee. He teaches writing and is the poet-in-residence at Carson Newman College where he has worked for over twenty-five years. He is the author of four collections of poems, a children's book, and many articles in literary magazines. The recipient of various honors and awards for his poetry, he received a Literary Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission in 1978, but even with national recognition he continues to write about his southern Appalachian roots.

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Non-Fiction

Poetry

Young Adult

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