{"id":1833,"date":"2016-02-10T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2016-02-10T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:57:38","slug":"perlis-alan-david-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"PERLIS, ALAN DAVID, 1943-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; author; university professor of English; real estate broker. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 29, 1943, Boston, Mass. Parents&#8211;Rose Winer and Harry Perlis.\u00a0 Married Paula Perlis; children&#8211;two; married Beth Bradley; children&#8211;three. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Vermont, B.A., 1965; M.A., 1966; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1969. Taught at the University of Michigan, 1969-1970; Beloit College, 1970-1975; Head of Department of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1975-; broker associate, Oxford Realty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contributed to South Dakota Review, and Bucknell Review. Died December 22, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1973, and Alabama Faculty Directory, 1983; obituary; amazon.com website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Return to the Primal Self; Identity in the Fiction of George Eliot. New York; P. Long, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Skin Songs. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>An unofficial guide to buying a home.\u00a0 Wiley, 204 (second edition).<\/p>\n<p>Wallace Stevens; a World of Transforming Shapes. Lewisburg, Pa.; Bucknell University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet; author; university professor of English; real estate broker. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 29, 1943, Boston, Mass. Parents&#8211;Rose Winer and Harry Perlis.\u00a0 Married Paula Perlis; children&#8211;two; married Beth Bradley; children&#8211;three. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Vermont, B.A., 1965; M.A., 1966; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1969. Taught at the University of Michigan, 1969-1970; Beloit College, 1970-1975; Head of Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}