{"id":749,"date":"2016-11-11T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=749"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:53:45","slug":"beatty-richmond-croom-1905-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"BEATTY, RICHMOND CROOM, 1905-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; January 6, 1905, Shawnee, Okla. Parents&#8211; William Henry and Caroline (Barbour) Beatty. Married&#8211; Floy Ward, May 7, 1927. Education&#8211; Public schools of Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1926, M.A., 1928; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1930. Taught at Tennessee State Teachers College in Memphis; University of Alabama; Vanderbilt University, 1937-56; literary editor of the Nashville Tennessean, 1956-1961. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1940.\u00a0 His colleagues at Vanderbilt published in his honor, <em>Reality and Myth:\u00a0 Essays in American Literature in Honor of Richmond Croom Beatty<\/em>, 1964.\u00a0 Died October 4,\u00a01961.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4 and Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama;bhamwiki.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bayard Taylor; Laureate of the Gilded Age. Norman; University of Oklahoma Press, 1936.<\/p>\n<p>James Russell Lowell. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Macaulay, Victorian Liberal. Norman; University of Oklahoma Press, 1938.<\/p>\n<p>William Byrd of Westover. Boston; Houghton, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>William Byrd&#8217;s Natural History of Virginia; or, The Newly Discovered Eden. Richmond, Va.; s.n., 1940.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Vanderbilt Miscellany, 1919-1944.\u00a0 Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1944.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. New York; Norton, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>The American Tradition in Literature.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Norton, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Southern Prose. Boston; D.C. Heath Co., 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The English Drama,900-1642:\u00a0 An Anthology.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Norton, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>The Literature of the South.\u00a0 Scott, Foresman, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson, Giles J.\u00a0 Journal of a Southern Student. Nashville:\u00a0 Vanderbilt University Press, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Badge of Courage; an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. New York; Norton, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of Richard Croom Beatty are held by the Heard Library at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar; university professor. Born&#8211; January 6, 1905, Shawnee, Okla. Parents&#8211; William Henry and Caroline (Barbour) Beatty. Married&#8211; Floy Ward, May 7, 1927. Education&#8211; Public schools of Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1926, M.A., 1928; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1930. Taught at Tennessee State Teachers College in Memphis; University of Alabama; Vanderbilt University, 1937-56; literary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}