June Hill McCash

Born: 1938 in South Carolina

• She lives in part-time at Jekyll Island in Glynn county and has written a number of books and articles about the island and its history

• She was a native of South Carolina who was educated at Agnes Scott College and Emory University

• The author of six books:

  • Love's Fools: Aucassin, Troilus, and Nicolette and the Parody of the Courtly Lover (1972)

  • She has co-written with her late husband, The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for American's Millionaires (1989)

  • The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women (1996)

  • The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony (1998)

  • Jekyll Island's Early Years (2005)

• She has published more than 40 articles for newspapers, magazines and journals.

• June Hill moved with her mililtary family at the age of 8 to North Carolina, where she graduated from high school

  • She received a B.A. in French at Agnes Scott College in Decatur in 1960, an M.A. in French at Emory in 1963 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Emory in 1967

• A full-time writer now

  • Has been an instructor at Emory (1964-66)

  • Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro (where she also lives part-time)

  • Professor of French and Humanities and was also founder of the University Honors Program

  • She is Professor Emerita at Middle Tennessee State since 2004

  • Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education as well as the recipient of her university's Distinguished Research Award (1996) and Career Achievement Award (2003) along with Agnes Scott College's Outstanding Alumna Award (1996). She has served as chair of Humanities Tennessee and trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation.