{"id":1769,"date":"2014-09-22T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2018-11-28T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:01:47","slug":"mcfarland-philip-james-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"McFARLAND, PHILIP JAMES, 1930-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; writer. Born&#8211; June 20, 1930, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Alfred and Lucile (Sylvester) McFarland. Married&#8211; Patricia Connors, July 23, 1960. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.A., 1951, Oberlin College; St. Catherine&#8217;s College, Cambridge University, M.A., 1957.\u00a0\u00a0Served in\u00a0U.S. Navy, 1951-1954. Textbook editor, Houghton Mifflin, 1958-1964; lived in Europe, 1964-1966; taught English, Concord Academy, Concord, Mass., 1966-1995. Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brave Bostonians:\u00a0 Hutchinson, Quincy, Franklin, and the Coming of the American Revolution.\u00a0 Boulder, Co.:\u00a0 Westview Press, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorne in Concord.\u00a0 New York: Grove Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>A History of Concord Academy.\u00a0 2 volumes.\u00a0 The Academy, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>A House Full of Women. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe.\u00a0 New York: Grove Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century.\u00a0 Rowman and Littlefield, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Dangers; the Affairs of the Somers. New York; Schocken Books, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons of Fear. New York; Schocken Books, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Sojourners; a Narrative of the Human Adventure &#8230;. New York; Atheneum, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Composition; Models and Exercises. Boston; Harcourt, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Explorations in Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on Literature. Six volumes. Boston:\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1972; revised edition, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Forms in English Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State Arms&#8211;World&#8217;s Guns and Other Weapons.\u00a0 Los Angeles:\u00a0 Peterson, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Moments in Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Perceptions in Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections in Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Themes in American Literature.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; writer. Born&#8211; June 20, 1930, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Alfred and Lucile (Sylvester) McFarland. Married&#8211; Patricia Connors, July 23, 1960. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.A., 1951, Oberlin College; St. Catherine&#8217;s College, Cambridge University, M.A., 1957.\u00a0\u00a0Served in\u00a0U.S. Navy, 1951-1954. Textbook editor, Houghton Mifflin, 1958-1964; lived in Europe, 1964-1966; taught English, Concord Academy, Concord, Mass., 1966-1995. 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