{"id":1405,"date":"2014-05-29T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2018-07-18T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:09:47","slug":"johnston-george-burke-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSTON, GEORGE BURKE, 1907-1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor; poet; publisher. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 8, 1907, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Doherty and Eleanor (McCorvey) Johnston. Married&#8211; Mary Tabb Lancaster, 1936. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1929, M.A., 1930; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1943. Taught, University of Alabama, 1935-1941, 1946-1950; U.S. Army, 1941-1946, then served in the reserves, retiring as lieutenant colonel; taught, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1930-1933, 1950-1974. Founder of White Rhinoceros Press. Member; Modern Language Association; Shakespeare Association of America. Received the Whitney Memorial Prize; Keats Memorial Sonnet Prize; Duff Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia. Died January 1, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Academic Verse.\u00a0 White Rhinoceros, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Banked Fire, Poems, 1929-1976. Blacksburg, Va.; White Rhinocerous Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Jonson; Poet. New York; Columbia University Press, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Jonson folio and other poems.\u00a0 Blacksburg, Va., 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections. Blacksburg, Va.; White Rhinocerous Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On. Blacksburg, Va.; White Rhinocerous Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Chalmers McCorvey: Teacher, Poet, Historian.\u00a0 N.P., 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The Unbelievable Birthday. Blacksburg, Va.; White Rhinocerous Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Historical Sketches.\u00a0 University Press of Virginia, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Poems by William Camden. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Poems of Ben Jonson. New York; Routledge &amp; Kegan Paul, 1954.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of George Burke Johnston is held by the special collections library at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor; poet; publisher. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 8, 1907, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; George Doherty and Eleanor (McCorvey) Johnston. Married&#8211; Mary Tabb Lancaster, 1936. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1929, M.A., 1930; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1943. Taught, University of Alabama, 1935-1941, 1946-1950; U.S. Army, 1941-1946, then served in the reserves, retiring as lieutenant colonel; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}