{"id":1621,"date":"2014-06-24T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:18:14","slug":"jones-william-mckendry-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"JONES, WILLIAM McKENDREY, 1927-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; Sept. 19, 1927, Dothan, Ala. Parents&#8211; William M. and Margaret (Farmer) Jones. Married&#8211; Ruth Ann Roberts, Aug. 14, 1952. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1950; Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1953. Served in U. S. Army, 1945-46. Taught English, Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire, 1953-55; University of Michigan, 1955-59; University of Missouri, 1959-1989. Folger Shakespeare Library research fellow, 1955. Member; Modern Language Association of America; Renaissance Society of America; Shakespeare Society of America; Authors Guild; Authors League of America. Died August 18, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Contemporary Authors online; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guide to Living Power. Atlanta; John Knox, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>John Steinbeck. Charlottesville, Va.; Samkar Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Protestant Romances; Patterns of Reality in the Prose of Sir Giovanni Francesco Blondi. Lawrence, Kan.; Coronado Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Up in Church. Nashville; Broadman, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Survival; a Manual on Manipulating. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living in Love; a Guide to Realistic Christian Marriage. Atlanta; John Knox, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Two Careers&#8211;One Marriage.\u00a0 New York: AMACOM, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fiction; Form and Experience. Boston; Heath, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The Present State of Scholarship in Sixteenth-Century Literature. Columbia; University of Missouri Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Stages of Composition. Boston; Heath, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; Sept. 19, 1927, Dothan, Ala. Parents&#8211; William M. and Margaret (Farmer) Jones. Married&#8211; Ruth Ann Roberts, Aug. 14, 1952. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1950; Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1953. Served in U. S. Army, 1945-46. Taught English, Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire, 1953-55; University of [&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-1621","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\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}