Biography:

Administrator, farmer. Born– December 11, 1905,  Attala, Ala. Parents–Barney M. and Norah Toney McClendon. Education– graduate of Jacksonville State College; M.S., George Peabody College, graduate study, Columbia University. Studied and taught English at the  University of Berlin and Freiburg University; assistant to the president, Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Miss.; civilian personnel officer, Smyrna Army Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tenn., World War II; owned and operated a motor freight line, 1945-1966; farmer, Sumner County, Tenn., 1966-85. Died April 9, 1985.

Source:

The jacket to Bone and Striffen.

Publication(s):

Bone and Striffen. Nashville; Blue and Gray Press, 1972.