Biography:

College professor.. Born– June 26, 1924, in Clarksville, Tenn. Parents– George Thomas and Emma (Wickham) Welker. Education– Austin Peay State University; University of Connecticut, B.A., 1944; Peabody College, M.A., 1948; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1952. Taught at Vanderbilt, 1955-1956, 1957-1964; University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1964-1985; founder and first chair of UAH English Department. Member– American Association of University Professors, Huntsville Literary Association, Modern Language Association. Died December 4, 2008.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest; Obituary, Huntsville Times, December 8, 2008. 

Editor:

Poem. Huntsville, Ala.; Huntsville Literary Association, 1978.

The Sense of Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1966.

Joint Editor:

Reality and Myth; Essays in American Literature in Memory of Richard Croom Beatty. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1964.