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Robert Avrett
Born: December ?, 1901
Died: 1975
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Hometown: Rockdale, TX
Residence:
Knoxville, TN
Education: BA Texas, 1927; Harrison Fellow
in Romantics at Pennsylvania, 1936-1938
Career: Instructor
Edinburg College (now Pan American College), 1928; Instructor Texas
College of Mines and Metallurgy (now Texas Western College), 1928-1945;
Director Instituto Cultural Argentino-Norteamericano, 1945-1946; Assistant
Professor Tennessee, 1947-1951; Associate Professor Tennessee 1951-1966;
Professor Tennessee, 1966-
Awards: Henry H. Bellaman Foundation
award, 1960
Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction
Internet Sites:
- TN
Writers, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Biography:
A native of Texas, Robert Avrett became a noted professor of Spanish,
teaching at the University of Tennessee for over 20 years. He was
also a widely published poet and children's author.
Primary Bibliography:
- Philosophical and Mystical Elements in the Poetry of Enrique
Gonzalez Martinez, The University of Texas at Austin, 1928
- Outline Spanish Review Grammar, Harper & Brothers, 1940
- The Dream Comes First, J.W. Luce, 1949
- Spanish in Review, Harper, 1959
- Against the Dark, Wings Press, 1961
- The Timid Pup, Lantern Press, 1964
Secondary Bibliography:
- Contemporary Authors. Volume 1-4. Detroit: Gale Research,
1967.
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