James Kibler

James Everett Kibler is a professor of English at the University of Georgia. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. The history and saga of this house is chronicled in his critically acclaimed Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction. Kibler divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.