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James Howell Street (October 15, 1903 – September 28, 1954) was a United States journalist, minister, and writer of Southern historical novels. ==Biography== Street was born in Lumberton, Mississippi, in 1903. As a teenager, he began working as a journalist for newspapers in Laurel (Laurel Leader Call) and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At the age of 20, Street, born a Roman Catholic, decided to become a Baptist minister, attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Howard College. Unsatisfied with his pastoral work after ministering stints in Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, Street returned to journalism in 1926. After briefly holding a position with the Pensacola, Florida ''Journal'', Street joined the staff of the Associated Press. The AP position took him to New York, where he began freelance writing fiction. Hired away from the AP by the New York World-Telegram in 1937, Street sold a short story ("''A Letter to the Editor''") to Cosmopolitan magazine, which caught the eye of film producer David Selznick, who turned it into a hit film, ''Nothing Sacred''. The Broadway musical, ''Hazel Flagg'', was based on his short story, as well as the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis-film ''Living It Up''. His success allowed him to write full-time, and throughout the 1940s he worked on a five-novel series of historical fiction about the progress of the Dabney family through the 19th century. The Dabney pentology--''Oh, Promised Land'', ''Tap Roots'', ''By Valor and Arms'', ''Tomorrow We Reap'', and ''Mingo Dabney''—explored classic Southern issues of race and honor, and strongly characterized Street's struggle to reconcile his Southern heritage with his feelings about racial injustice. The series was a critical and popular success, with several of the books being made into feature films. Street modeled characters in his Dabney family saga on Sam Dale, Newt Knight and Greenwood LeFlore. Street also published two popular works about boys and dogs, the short story "The Biscuit Eater" and the novel ''Good-bye, My Lady'', both turned into movies (the former in both 1940 and 1972, the latter in 1956), and a set of semi-autobiographical novels about a Baptist minister, ''The Gauntlet'' and ''The High Calling,'' both were bought by Hollywood but never produced. Street's short stories and articles appeared regularly in ''Cosmopolitan'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Collier's'' and ''Holiday''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Street (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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