{"id":770,"date":"2014-02-20T19:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T02:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=770"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:40:16","slug":"benson-carl-frederick-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"BENSON, CARL FREDERICK, 1916-1979."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor. Born&#8211; February 19, 1916, Camden, Ark. Parents&#8211; Louis Victor and Elizabeth (Walther) Benson. Married&#8211; Martha Ellen Blanks, May 29, 1941. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southern State College, Magnolia,\u00a0Arkansas; University of Texas, B.A., 1937, M.A., 1938; University of Illinois, Ph.D., 1948. Taught at Arkansas A &amp; M College and University of Illinois; Auburn University after 1947. A Ford faculty fellow at Harvard University and Masschusetts Institute of Technology; Fulbright lecturer at Erlangen University.\u00a0 The Carl Benson Lecture Series on Twentieth Century Literature was established in his honor by the English Department at Auburn.\u00a0 Died April 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Idea of Tragedy. Glenview, Ill.; Scott, Foresman, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essays for Exposition. New York; Harcourt, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor. Born&#8211; February 19, 1916, Camden, Ark. Parents&#8211; Louis Victor and Elizabeth (Walther) Benson. Married&#8211; Martha Ellen Blanks, May 29, 1941. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southern State College, Magnolia,\u00a0Arkansas; University of Texas, B.A., 1937, M.A., 1938; University of Illinois, Ph.D., 1948. Taught at Arkansas A &amp; M College and University of Illinois; Auburn University [&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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}