{"id":1594,"date":"2016-07-13T13:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2018-08-10T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:33:36","slug":"langford-gerald-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"LANGFORD, GERALD, 1911-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar, university professor. Born&#8211; Oct. 20, 1911, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel Martin and Mary Selma (Jackson) Langford. Married&#8211; Anne Crenshaw Phelps, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, B.A., 1933; M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1940. Taught, University of Kentucky, 1936-1938; North Carolina State College, 1938-1940; Winthrop College, 1940-1943; served in U.S. Marines, 1943-1946; taught, University of Texas, 1946-1983. Member&#8211; Authors League of America; Texas Institute of Letters.\u00a0 Awarded the rank of professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1983 from the University of Texas.\u00a0 Died April 18, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alias O. Henry; a Biography of William Sidney Porter. New York; Macmillan, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Destination. Denver; Stonehenge Books, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Murder of Stanford White. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The Richard Harding Davis Years; a Biography of a Mother and Son. New York; Holt, Rinehart, 1961.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faulkner&#8217;s Revision of <em>Absalom, Absalom<\/em>; A Collation of the Manuscript and the Published Book.\u00a0 Austin:\u00a0 University of Texas Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner&#8217;s Revision of <em>Sanctuary<\/em>: A Collation of the Unrevised Galleys and the Published Book.\u00a0 Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Ingenue Among the Lions; the Letters of Emily Clark to Joseph Hergesheimer. Austin, Tex.; University of Texas Press, 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar, university professor. Born&#8211; Oct. 20, 1911, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel Martin and Mary Selma (Jackson) Langford. Married&#8211; Anne Crenshaw Phelps, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Virginia, B.A., 1933; M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1940. Taught, University of Kentucky, 1936-1938; North Carolina State College, 1938-1940; Winthrop College, 1940-1943; served in U.S. Marines, 1943-1946; taught, [&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-1594","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\/1594","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=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}