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John Lane Idol, Jr.
He attended Deep Gap Elementary School, Appalachian High School, Appalachian State Teachers College (now Appalachian State University), and the University of Arkansas. Among his friends in the United States Air Force he was known as the “Deep Gulch Kid” because he proudly identified himself as a product of Deep Gap and Boone. The riches of his heritage he defended then; the riches of that heritage he now celebrates in the pages of his book Blue Ridge Heritage.
Books by John Lane Idol, Jr. Blue Ridge Heritage: An Informal History of Three Generations of the Family of John Nicholson Idol (2005) Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition (with Melinda M. Ponder, 1999) Literary Masters: Thomas Wolfe (2001) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Contemporary Reviews (2008) A Thomas Wolfe Companion (1987)
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A fourth-generation native of the Blue Ridge, John Lane Idol, Jr., a retired English professor, reversed the migration pattern of his great grandfather by moving to Piedmont South and North Carolina to make a living. He taught at Clemson University for over thirty years before settling in Hillsborough, North Carolina. But he spends much time on Idol Mountain in Deep Gap on acreage passed down to him from the homestead of his great grandfather, John Nicholson Idol.