{"id":2262,"date":"2013-05-08T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:42:11","slug":"welker-robert-louis-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"WELKER, ROBERT LOUIS, 1924-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College professor.. Born&#8211; June 26, 1924, in Clarksville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; George Thomas and Emma (Wickham) Welker. Education&#8211; Austin Peay State University; University of Connecticut, B.A., 1944; Peabody College, M.A., 1948; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1952. Taught at Vanderbilt, 1955-1956, 1957-1964; University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1964-1985; founder and first chair of UAH English Department. Member&#8211; American Association of University Professors, Huntsville Literary Association, Modern Language Association. Died December 4, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest; Obituary, Huntsville Times, December 8, 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poem. Huntsville, Ala.; Huntsville Literary Association, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Sense of Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reality and Myth; Essays in American Literature in Memory of Richard Croom Beatty. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College professor.. Born&#8211; June 26, 1924, in Clarksville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; George Thomas and Emma (Wickham) Welker. Education&#8211; Austin Peay State University; University of Connecticut, B.A., 1944; Peabody College, M.A., 1948; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1952. Taught at Vanderbilt, 1955-1956, 1957-1964; University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1964-1985; founder and first chair of UAH English Department. Member&#8211; American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}