Editing Knoxville, Tennessee (section)

==In popular culture==
Knoxville has appeared in music, literature and television. Film director [[Quentin Tarantino]] was born in Knoxville, and the city and East Tennessee are frequently mentioned in his films, such as in the 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', in which [[Bruce Willis]]' character (and the watch given to him by [[Christopher Walken]]'s character) is from Knoxville.<ref name="tarantinoknox">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Maggie |title=Keeping up with Knoxville's Quentin Tarantino: 'Once Upon a Time', 'Star Trek', beyond |url=https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/07/22/quentin-tarantino-once-upon-time-star-trek-whats-next/1756305001/ |access-date=December 27, 2020 |work=[[Knoxville News Sentinel]] |date=July 22, 2019}}</ref>

In literature, author [[Cormac McCarthy]] is from Knoxville, and several of his books feature the city, such as ''[[Suttree]]'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel. [[James Agee]] also lived in the city, and his 1957 posthumous autobiographical novel ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, while also wrestling with the death of Agee's father in a car accident, and the impact this had on his family.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Agee |first=James |title=A Death in the Family |publisher=Penguin Classics |year=2009 |isbn=978-0143105718 |location=London, England |orig-date=1957}}</ref>

[[Mark Twain]] wrote about a gunfight in [[downtown Knoxville]] involving [[Joseph Mabry Jr.]], owner of the city's antebellum [[Mabry-Hazen House]] in ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]'' from 1883. Several other books take place in fictionalized versions of the city, such as the 1915 [[Anne W. Armstrong]] novel, ''The Seas of God'',<ref>M. Thomas Inge, Charles Reagan Wilson, et al., ''The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), p. 174.</ref> and [[David Madden (novelist)|David Madden]]'s 1974 novel, ''Bijou'', is set in a fictional city known as "Cherokee", based on Knoxville.<ref name="mighty">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20130725133722/http://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/jun/23/mighty-metro-pulse-collection-awesome-knoxville-li/?print=1 The Mighty Metro Pulse Collection of Awesome Knoxville Lists]", ''Metro Pulse'', June 23, 2010. Accessed at the Internet Archive, October 1, 2015.</ref>

The first part of [[James Herman Robinson]]'s 1950 autobiography, ''The Road Without Turning'', takes place in Knoxville,{{importance inline|date=April 2022}} and "The Man in the Overstuffed Chair", a 1985 short story by playwright [[Tennessee Williams]], gives a brief description of the death of Williams' father, Cornelius, at a Knoxville hospital, and his subsequent burial at [[Old Gray Cemetery]].<ref>Tennessee Williams, "The Man In the Overstuffed Chair." ''Collected Stories'' (New York: New Directions Books, 1985), p. xvi.</ref>

Pulitzer Prize-winning author [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]'s last novel in 1994, ''In the Tennessee Country'', refers to a "Knoxville cemetery" where the main character's grandfather (a fictitious politician) is buried. This may refer to Old Gray Cemetery, where Taylor's own grandfather, Governor [[Robert Love Taylor]], was originally buried in 1912.<ref>Jack Neely, ''Knoxville's Secret History'' (Scruffy Books, 1995), pp. 56–7.</ref>

Swiss travel writer [[Annemarie Schwarzenbach]] visited Knoxville in the 1930s, and wrote an essay about the city, "Auf der Schattenseite von Knoxville", which was published in the December 1937 edition of the Swiss magazine, ''[[Basler Zeitung|National Zeitung]]''.<ref>Jack Neely, ''From the Shadow Side: And Other Stories of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Tellico Books, 2003), p. 24.</ref>

A number of songs and music compositions are about or feature Knoxville as well. "[[The Knoxville Girl]]", first recorded in 1924, is traditional [[Appalachian music|Appalachian ballad]]. Classical composer [[Samuel Barber]]'s "[[Knoxville: Summer of 1915]]" from 1947 is a voice & orchestra piece based on 1938 short prose by [[James Agee]]. [[Dire Straits]] guitarist [[Mark Knopfler]] recorded a song entitled "Daddy's Gone to Knoxville" on his 2002 solo album, ''The Ragpicker's Dream'',{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} "[[The Ballad of Thunder Road]]" by [[Robert Mitchum]] references Knoxville's Bearden community, and other musicians such as [[Steve Earle]], [[Ronnie Milsap]], and [[Hank Williams, Jr.]] have mentioned the city in lyrics. Hank Williams, Hank Jr.'s father, spent his [[Death of Hank Williams|last day alive]] in Knoxville as well. Country singer [[Kenny Chesney]] is from Knoxville.

A number of early country music songs were recorded in Knoxville as the "St. James Sessions" in 1930, such as "Satan is Busy In Knoxville" by Leola Manning.<ref>Lynn Point Records, [http://www.lynnpoint.com/st_james/ The St. James Sessions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714010113/http://www.lynnpoint.com/st_james/|date=July 14, 2011}}. Retrieved: February 5, 2010.</ref><ref name="a129">{{cite web | last=Everett | first=Matthew | title=The Knoxville Sessions: An Introduction to the St. James Hotel Recordings of 1929-30 | website=The Knoxville Mercury | date=2016-05-05 | url=https://www.knoxmercury.com/2016/05/04/knoxville-sessions-introduction-st-james-hotel-recordings-1929-30/ | access-date=2024-11-27}}</ref>