{"id":1376,"date":"2014-01-31T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2018-04-10T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:18:04","slug":"gay-william-teague-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"GAY, WILLIAM TEAGUE, 1899-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College professor. Born&#8211; September 29, 1899, Montgomery. Parents&#8211;John Floyd and Julia Elmetta Gay. Married&#8211;Lena Clair Butler.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1921, LL.B., 1923, M.A., 1928. Instructor in English, University of Florida, 1927-1930; head, English department, Georgia State College for Men, 1930-1933; literary research and writing, 1933-1935, 1945-1961; head, English department, Bob Jones College, 1938-1941; instructor in English, Campbell College, 1961-1962; acting chairman, English department, Bluefield State College, 1961-1963; assistant professor, Hampden-Sydney College, 1964-1965; associate professor, Pembroke State College, 1965-1966; research and writing after 1966. D.D., University of Alabama, 1969. Member, Academy of American Poets. Died November 21, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, Alabama; a City in Crisis. New York; Exposition Press, 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College professor. Born&#8211; September 29, 1899, Montgomery. Parents&#8211;John Floyd and Julia Elmetta Gay. Married&#8211;Lena Clair Butler.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1921, LL.B., 1923, M.A., 1928. Instructor in English, University of Florida, 1927-1930; head, English department, Georgia State College for Men, 1930-1933; literary research and writing, 1933-1935, 1945-1961; head, English department, Bob Jones [&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-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}