{"id":1484,"date":"2013-02-13T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2016-04-07T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:27:12","slug":"hobson-fred-colby-jr-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"HOBSON, FRED COLBY, JR., 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literary scholar; university professor, editor. Born– April 23, 1943, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Parents– Fred Colby and Miriam (Tuttle) Hobson. Married–Linda V. Whitney, June 17, 1967.\u00a0 Children–one. Education– University of North Carolina, B.A., 1965; Duke University, M.A., 1967; UNC, Ph.D., 1972.\u00a0 Editor\u00a0\/ editorial writer for Associated Press, Charlotte; Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 1966-1970. Taught at Virginia Western College, 1971-1972; University of Alabama, 1972-1986; LSU, 1986-89; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989-.\u00a0 Named Lineberger Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, 1989.\u00a0\u00a0Author of many articles in journals and anthologies; member of several editorial boards. Member Modern Language Association; Society for the Study of Southern Literature; Southern Texts Society; Mencken Society; St. George Tucker Society. \u00a0Shared the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism as editorial writer for Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 1970; received the Alabama Library Association’s Nonfiction Award, 1984.\u00a0 Shared the Pulitzer Prize with the staff of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, <\/em>1971; Lillian Smith Award for Nonfiction, 1983; Jules F. Landry Award, 1983; Alabama Library Association Award for Nonfiction Writing, 1986; Pulitzer Prizer Nomination for Biography, 1994.\u00a0 Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at UNC.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online.\u00a0 UNC website.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Now I See:\u00a0 The White Southern Racial Narrative.\u00a0 LSU Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Mencken: A Life.\u00a0 Random House, 1994.<\/p>\n

Off the Rim:\u00a0 Basketball and other Religions in a Carolina Childhood.\u00a0 Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.<\/p>\n

Serpent in Eden; H. L. Mencken and the South. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1974.<\/p>\n

Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays.\u00a0 LSU Press, 2005.<\/p>\n

South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-first Century. Athens:\u00a0 University of Georgia Press, 2002.<\/p>\n

Southern Mythmaking; the Savage and the Ideal. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n

Southern Writer in the Postmodern World. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1991,<\/p>\n

Tell About the South; the Southern Rage to Explain. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

South-watching; Selected Essays, by Gerald White Johnson. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

Southern Enigma:\u00a0 Essays on the U.S. South.\u00a0 Valencia, Spain:\u00a0 Press of the University of Valencia, 2008.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literature at the Barricades; the American Writer in the 1930s. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.<\/p>\n

Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology.\u00a0 Norton, 1997.<\/p>\n

Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the American South.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, A Memoir by H. L. Mencken.\u00a0 Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Literary scholar; university professor, editor. Born– April 23, 1943, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Parents– Fred Colby and Miriam (Tuttle) Hobson. Married–Linda V. Whitney, June 17, 1967.\u00a0 Children–one. Education– University of North Carolina, B.A., 1965; Duke University, M.A., 1967; UNC, Ph.D., 1972.\u00a0 Editor\u00a0\/ editorial writer for Associated Press, Charlotte; Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 1966-1970. Taught at […]<\/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-1484","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\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}