{"id":1794,"date":"2018-10-23T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-10-23T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T16:22:32","slug":"mccann-franklin-thresher-1903-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"McCANN, FRANKLIN THRESHER, 1903-1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar; college professor.\u00a0Born&#8211; October 19, 1903, Dayton, Ohio. Parents&#8211; Judge B.F. and Laura Thresher McCann. Married&#8211; Esther Nelson. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; B.A., Denison College; M.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Employed by Denison and Columbia; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947-1969; acting head, English Department, Auburn University, 1953-1954. Member&#8211; Alabama College English Teachers Association; Auburn Board of Education. Died April 8, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English Discovery of America to 1585. New York; Kings Crown Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coordinator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recommendations for Auburn School Program, 1960-70. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Committee for Better Schools, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar; college professor.\u00a0Born&#8211; October 19, 1903, Dayton, Ohio. Parents&#8211; Judge B.F. and Laura Thresher McCann. Married&#8211; Esther Nelson. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; B.A., Denison College; M.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Employed by Denison and Columbia; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947-1969; acting head, English Department, Auburn University, 1953-1954. Member&#8211; Alabama College English Teachers Association; Auburn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}