James Hurst
(b. 1942)

James Hurst was born and raised on a farm in North Carolina. He studied to be a chemical engineer but preferred music and took voice lessons at New York's Julliard School of Music. When he realized that he was not meant to have a career in opera, he took a job as a bank clerk and wrote in the evenings. He published several stories in small magazines and achieved recognition with "The Scarlet Ibis," published in The Atlantic, in 1960.

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