James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Born in 1869 and dying in 1918, he belonged to the generation of Southern authors writing in the decades after the Civil War. Available catalog and library records connect him with Georgia and show him publishing both fiction and poetry during the early 1900s.

His known books include the novel The Red-Luck of Braddon and the poetry collection At the Beautiful Gate. The surviving record suggests a literary career rooted in regional themes, with an interest in storytelling and verse rather than a large public celebrity.

Because information on his life is limited in easily available sources, much of his personal story remains faint today. Even so, his books preserve a small but distinctive place in the world of Southern literature from the turn of the twentieth century.