{"id":1281,"date":"2016-08-11T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:22:12","slug":"helms-randel-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"HELMS, RANDEL, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; November 6, 1942, Montgomery. Grew up in California. Parents&#8211; Loyce Virgil and Vernell Mann Helms. Married&#8211; Penelope Palmer, August 1, 1964.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Susan McCraw. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of California in Riverside, B.A., 1964; University of Washington, Ph.D., 1968.\u00a0Taught English at the\u00a0University of California in Los Angeles, 1968-1977\u00a0and Arizona State University, Tempe, 1977-2007. Member, Modern Language Association of America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gospel Fictions. Buffalo, N.Y.; Prometheus Books, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Tolkien and the Silmarils. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Tolkien&#8217;s World. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Who Wrote the Gospels?\u00a0 Milennium Press, 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet; literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; November 6, 1942, Montgomery. Grew up in California. Parents&#8211; Loyce Virgil and Vernell Mann Helms. Married&#8211; Penelope Palmer, August 1, 1964.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Susan McCraw. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of California in Riverside, B.A., 1964; University of Washington, Ph.D., 1968.\u00a0Taught English at the\u00a0University of California in Los Angeles, 1968-1977\u00a0and Arizona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}