Titles by: STEVEN J. HARVEY
STEVEN J. HARVEY
Steve Harvey is the author of Bound for Shady Grove, a collection of personal essays about his experiences learning to sing and play the traditional music of the Appalachian Mountains where he lives. The University of Georgia Press published it in June 2000. He is also the author of two other collections of personal essays. A Geometry of Lilies (South Carolina) and Lost in Translation (Georgia) and is the editor of an anthology of personal essays called In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age (Georgia). Harvey received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Virginia and has been a professor of English at Young Harris College in the north Georgia mountains since 1976. He has published pieces in many magazines such as Harper's, Double Take, The Georgia Review, The Fourth Genre, and Creative Nonfiction, and has been anthologized in In Short, Life Studies, and other collections. He has been a member of the board of the Georgia Humanities Council and a regular columnist for Banjo Newsletter. He also sings and plays guitar and banjo for the group Butternut Creek and Friends which plays an eclectic mix of folk, blues, and traditional music, and does concerts in his area to raise money for charities and worthy causes. He has produced a CD of banjo solos named "Three Forks of Ivy" which contains many mountain and Elizabethan tunes. It is available from CD Baby. He lives in Young Harris, Georgia with his wife and family.