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John Trotwood Moore
1858–1929
A Southern journalist, storyteller, and poet, he became one of Tennessee’s best-known literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work ranged from fiction and verse to regional history, and he later served as Tennessee’s state librarian and archivist.
2 Audiobooks
The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
by John Trotwood Moore
Jack Ballington, Forester
by John Trotwood Moore
About the author
Born in 1858, John Trotwood Moore was an American writer, journalist, and local historian closely associated with Tennessee. He wrote poems, short stories, and novels, and built a wide readership through his newspaper and magazine work as well as his books.
Moore became especially known for writing about Southern life and memory, helping shape a popular regional image of Tennessee and the broader South for many readers of his time. Later in life, he served as State Librarian and Archivist of Tennessee from 1919 until his death in 1929.
Today, he is remembered as a prominent literary voice of his era in Tennessee, though some of his views reflected the racial politics of the Old South. That makes his legacy an important part of both the state’s literary history and its more complicated cultural past.