{"id":2423,"date":"2013-09-11T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:59:55","slug":"murray-albert-1916-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"MURRAY, ALBERT, 1916-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author; university professor; military officer.\u00a0 Born June 12, 1916, Nokomis (Escambia County), \u00a0Alabama. Parents– John Lee and Sudie Young.\u00a0 Married Mozelle Menefee, May 31, 1941.\u00a0 Children– one.\u00a0 Education–Tuskegee Institute, B.S., 1941; New York University, M. A., 1948; postgraduate work at the University of Michigan, 1940; Northwestern University, 1941; University of Paris, 1950.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-62; retired as major.\u00a0 After retirement from the Air Force wrote novels, nonfiction, and criticism;\u00a0 an important figure on the New York literary scene and a friend and associate of Ralph Ellison and other influential authors and thinkers. Participated in many literary symposia and served\u00a0as writer in residence\u00a0at many universities, including Columbia, the University of Massachusetts, Barnard College, Drew University, and others.\u00a0 Member International PEN, Authors League of America, Authors Guild, and Alpha Phi Alpha.\u00a0 Received the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction in 1974; the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism, 1976;\u00a0 Lincoln Center Directors Emeritii Award, 1991; the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, 1996; Distinguished Artist Award, Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2003; honorary doctorates from Colgate University, 1975, and Spring Hill College, 1996. Elected to the inaugural class of the Alabama Authors Hall of Fame, 2015. Died August 18, 2013.<\/p>\n

Sources; <\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; obituary, 20 August 2013.<\/p>\n

Publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n

Train Whistle Guitar.\u00a0 McGraw, 1974.<\/p>\n

The Omni-Americans:\u00a0 New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Outerbridge and Dienstrfrey, 1970.<\/p>\n

South to a Very Old Place.\u00a0 New York: McGraw, 1972.<\/p>\n

The Hero and the Blues.\u00a0 Columbia, MO:\u00a0 University of Missouri Press, 1973.<\/p>\n

Stomping the Blues.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 McGraw, 1976.<\/p>\n

Reflections on Logic, Politics, and Reality:\u00a0 A Challenge to the Sacred Consensus of Contemporary American Thinking.\u00a0 Riverdale, NY: Braimanna Publishers, 1989.<\/p>\n

The Spyglass Tree.\u00a0 Pantheon, 1991.<\/p>\n

The Blue Devils of Nada:\u00a0 A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statements.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Pantheon, 1996.<\/p>\n

The Seven League Boots.\u00a0 Pantheon, 1996.<\/p>\n

Conversations with Albert Murray.\u00a0 Kackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.<\/p>\n

Conjugations and Reiterations.\u00a0 Pantheon, 2001.<\/p>\n

From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Pantheon, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Magic Keys.\u00a0 Pantheon, 2005.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good Morning Blues; The Autobiography of Count Basie.\u00a0 New York; Random House, 1985.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trading Twelves; The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray.\u00a0 New York; Modern Library, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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