{"id":8892,"date":"2018-10-08T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:14:01","slug":"tucker-betty-jean-foxhall-1931-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"TUCKER, BETTY JEAN FOXHALL, 1931-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literary scholar; university professor of language and literature.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Marengo County, May 17, 1931.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;William Newman Foxhall and Adelle Yates Foxhall.\u00a0 Married&#8211;William Howard Tucker.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211;University of Montevallo, B.A.; University of West Alabama, M.A.; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1970.\u00a0 Teacher at Linden High School; reporter, Birmingham Post-Herald.\u00a0 Professor of English at the University of West Alabama; Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature. Published short stories in periodicals; one story, &#8220;My Sister Callie,&#8221;\u00a0was included in <em>Best American Short Stories.<\/em>\u00a0 Founded the Livingston Press, the UWA literary magazine, the division writing lab. Awarded status of professor emeritus at UWA on her retirement in 1987. Received the William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching at UWA; elected to the Society of the Golden Key. The Betty Jean Tucker Conference Room was named in her honor.\u00a0 Died October 3, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, October 6, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a Darkling Plain:\u00a0 Stories of the Great Depression.\u00a0 Livingston Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Swift: God&#8217;s Knight-Errant.\u00a0 Livingston Press, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary scholar; university professor of language and literature.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Marengo County, May 17, 1931.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;William Newman Foxhall and Adelle Yates Foxhall.\u00a0 Married&#8211;William Howard Tucker.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211;University of Montevallo, B.A.; University of West Alabama, M.A.; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1970.\u00a0 Teacher at Linden High School; reporter, Birmingham Post-Herald.\u00a0 Professor of English at the University of West Alabama; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8896,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}