Biography:

Clergyman, journalist, author. Born– Lumberton, Miss., October 15, 1903. Parents– Jonathan Gamillus Street and _______. Married– Lucy Nash O’Briant on June 20, 1923. Children– Three. Education– attended Massey School, Pulaski, Tenn.; attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Howard College. Reporter for Laurel, Miss. Daily Leader and other papers until 1923; Baptist minister 1923-1926 in Birmingham and elsewhere; returned to journalism in New York and other cities; in 1937 became free-lance writer.

Source:

National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1958.

Publication(s):

The Biscuit Eater. New York; Dial Press, 1941.

By Valour and Arms. New York; Dial Press, 1944.

Captain Little Ax. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1956.

The Civil War. New York; Dial Press, 1953.

The Gauntlet. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1945.

Good-Bye, My Lady. Chicago; Peoples Book Club, 1945.

The High Calling. New York; Doubleday, 1951.

In My Father’s House. New York; Dial Press, 1941.

Look Away, A Dixie Notebook. New York; Viking Press, 1936.

Mingo Dabney. New York; Dial Press, 1950.

Oh, Promised Land. New York; Dial Press, 1940.

The Revolutionary War. New York; Dial Press, 1954.

Short Stores. New York; Dial Press, 1945.

Tap Roots. New York; Book League of America, 1942.

The Velvet Doublet. New York; Doubleday, 1953.

Joint_Publication(s):

Pride of Possessions. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1960.

Tomorrow We Reap. New York; Dial Press, 1949.