{"id":1834,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1834"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"penny, robert lynn, 1935-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"PENNY, ROBERT LYNN, 1935-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actor, director, university professor.  Born&#8211;  June 29, 1935, Anniston.   Education&#8211;  Columbia University&#8217;s School of Drama, 1956; Wofford College, B.A., 1957; University of North Carolina, M.A.; 1959; University of Alabama, Ph.D, 1968.  Taught at the University of Alabama, 1961-1967; Old Dominion University, 1968-1969; University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1969-.  Performed in theatres in Norfolk, Williamsburg, Tuscaloosa, and Birmingham.  Directed plays in New York and El Paso.  Contributed poetry to Contemporary Literature in Birmingham, an Anthology, Nit and Wit, Chicago&#8217;s Literary Arts Magazine, Comment, Folio, and College English.  Received the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Contributions to theatre; a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Italy. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Lynn Penny, Birmingham.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Baja.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press, 1977.  <\/p>\n<p>     Prologues to Home.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press, 1979. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing Silent.  Birmingham, Ala.;  s.l., 1980.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Actor, director, university professor. Born&#8211; June 29, 1935, Anniston. Education&#8211; Columbia University&#8217;s School of Drama, 1956; Wofford College, B.A., 1957; University of North Carolina, M.A.; 1959; University of Alabama, Ph.D, 1968. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1961-1967; Old Dominion University, 1968-1969; University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1969-. Performed in theatres in Norfolk, Williamsburg, [&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-1834","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\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}