{"id":1848,"date":"2016-06-07T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2016-09-20T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:30:58","slug":"payne-leonidas-warren-jr-1873-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"PAYNE, LEONIDAS WARREN, JR., 1873-1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar;\u00a0university professor. Born&#8211; July 12, 1873, Auburn. Parents&#8211; Leonidas Warren and Mary Jane (Foster) Payne. Married&#8211; Mary Susan Bledsoe, 1897. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1892; M.S., 1893; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1904. Taught at the Southwestern Alabama Agricultural School in Evergreen, 1894-1901; Jacksonville State Normal School, 1901-1902; Harrison Fellow in English at the University of Pennsylvania, 1902-1904. Associate editor of Worchester&#8217;s Dictionary, 1904-1906. Taught at Louisiana State University, 1906; University of Texas, 1906-1943. Co-founder and first president of the Texas Folklore Society, 1910.\u00a0 Editor of the first anthology of Texas literature&#8211;<em>A Survey of Texas Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 Friend and associate of many important American writers, including Carl Sandburg, e.e.Cummings, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.\u00a0 Died June 16, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2 and Who&#8217;s Who of North American Authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of American Literature. Chicago; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1918.<\/p>\n<p>A Survey of Texas Literature. New York; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1928.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using Our Language. Chicago; Wheeler Pub.Co., 1935.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn to Spell; a High-School Book. New York; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1916.<\/p>\n<p>A Word-List from East Alabama. Austin, Tex.; s.n., 1909.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Literary Readings. Chicago; Rand, McNally, 1917.<\/p>\n<p>The Hector of Germanie; or, The Palsgrave Prime Elector. Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>Selections from American Literature. Chicago; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1919-1926.<\/p>\n<p>Selections from English Literature. New York; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1919.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Literary Readings. New York; Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enjoying Literature. 4 vols. New York; Rand, McNally, 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Literature for the Junior High School. New York; Rand, McNally, 1929.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Poems. Dallas, Tex.; Dealey &amp; Lowe, 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar;\u00a0university professor. Born&#8211; July 12, 1873, Auburn. Parents&#8211; Leonidas Warren and Mary Jane (Foster) Payne. Married&#8211; Mary Susan Bledsoe, 1897. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1892; M.S., 1893; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1904. Taught at the Southwestern Alabama Agricultural School in Evergreen, 1894-1901; Jacksonville State Normal School, 1901-1902; Harrison Fellow in [&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-1848","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\/1848","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=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}