Biography:

University professor; literary scholar. Born– September 9, 1909, Collins, Miss. Parents– John R. and Annie Elizabeth (Welch) Patrick. Married– Miriam Morris Farriday, August 28, 1937. Education– Mississippi State University, B.S., 1933; Louisiana State University, M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1937; Ford Foundation Fellowship at Columbia University, 1953-1954. Taught at Louisiana State; professor and department head at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn), 1947-1978. Served in the U.S. Army, 1942-1946; attained rank of Lt. Col.. Died June 14, 1986.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.

Publication(s):

From Texas to Teisnach with the 457 AAA Aw Batallion. S.l.; A. Humblot, 1945.

Ring Lardner. New York; Twayne, 1963.

Joint_Publication(s):

Southern Literary Culture. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Joint_Editor:

American Short Stories, 1820 to the Present. Chicago; Scott, Foresman, 1964.

Realism and Romanticism in Fiction; an Approach to the Novel. Chicago; Scott, Foresman.

Short Stories of the Western World. Glenview, Ill.; Scott, Foresman, 1969.

What is the Short Story; Case Studies in the Development of a Literary, Form. Chicago; Scott, Foresman, 1961.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Walton R. Patrick is held in the Special Collections Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.