John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is set in the mountains of Kentucky where a young girl falls in love with an engineer from the north. The romance is complicated by a typical Kentucky family feud and an industrial boom.

John Fox was an American journalist, short story writer and novelist. Fox was born in Kentucky, educated at Harvard, and became a journalist in New York. A Mountain Europa was his first novel serialized in Century Magazine. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is set in the mountains of Kentucky where a young girl falls in love with an engineer from the north. The romance is complicated by a typical Kentucky family feud and an industrial boom.