The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (novel)

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is a 1903 Kentucky Civil War novel by John Fox Jr. It was serialized in Scribner's Magazine in the summer of 1903, and the book edition published later that year.^[1] The novel tells the rags-to-respectability tale of orphan Chad Buford. It was the first novel to sell a million copies in the US. Fox's depiction of black characters was held against it from the 1960s.^[2]

Film versions

• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, 1920 film
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, 1928 film
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, 1961 film

See also

• Kingdom Come State Park

References

1. Bill York John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author 2010 p171b Early in 1898, he had written Tom Page that he had worked his first hour on a Civil War novel. It would be a year before he would write another line after that first chapter of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come was finished, ..."
2. Now and Then - Volumes 1-4 -1984 · Page 45 "In the 1960s, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come was in disfavor because of Fox's depiction of black characters such as Snowball "