{"id":841,"date":"2012-10-23T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=841"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:56:00","slug":"brittin-norman-aylsworth-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"BRITTIN, NORMAN AYLSWORTH, 1906-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor. Born Sept. 9, 1906,\u00a0 Syracuse, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Lewis J. and Grace (Aylsworth) Brittin. Married&#8211; Florence Mellor, March 1, 1929 (died 1951). Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211; Ruth Harris Lowe, 1951. Education&#8211; Syracuse University, A.B., 1927, A.M., 1930; post-graduate work at the University of California, 1934-1937; University of Washington, Ph.D., 1947.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taught English at the University of Utah, 1937-44; at the University of Chicago, 1947-48; at Auburn University, 1948-1977;\u00a0 Molly Hollifield Jones Professor of Humanities, 1966-77.\u00a0Co-founder and Co-editor of Southern Humanities Review, 1966-1977.\u00a0 Professor Emeritus at Auburn, 1977. Died April 4, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Auburn-Opelika News, April 8, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edna St. Vincent Millay. Boston; Twayne, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>A Reading Apprenticeship; Literature. New York; Holt, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Middleton. Boston; Twayne, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>A Writing Apprenticeship. New York; Holt, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Writing Description and Narration. New York; Holt, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor. Born Sept. 9, 1906,\u00a0 Syracuse, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Lewis J. and Grace (Aylsworth) Brittin. Married&#8211; Florence Mellor, March 1, 1929 (died 1951). Children&#8211; Two. Married&#8211; Ruth Harris Lowe, 1951. Education&#8211; Syracuse University, A.B., 1927, A.M., 1930; post-graduate work at the University of California, 1934-1937; University of Washington, Ph.D., 1947.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taught English at the [&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-841","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\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}