Literary scholar; university professor, administrator, consultant. Born– July 29, 1906, Birmingham. Parents– Ora William and Blanche (Perry) Fidler. Married– Alice Adeline Gardiner, January 29, 1929. Children– One. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1928; Harvard University, M.A., 1930; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1947.  Served in the US Navy, WWII. Taught English at the University of Alabama, 1930-1956; staff member for American Association of University Professors, 1958-1971; General Secretary, 1958-67.  Consultant for the U.S. Employment Office and the Library of Congress in the revision of the copyright law. Member of AAUP, ACLU, American Studies Association, and Pi Alpha Theta. Awarded the honorary L.H.D. by the University of Alabama, 1972.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1978.

Publication(s):

Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835-1909; a Biography. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1951.

Joint_Editor:

Contemporary Southern Prose. Boston; Heath, 1940.