LINCECUM, Jerry Bryan 1942-

PERSONAL: Born February 15, 1942, in Seale, TX; son of Jack (a farmer) and Mildred (Jones) Lincecum; married Etta Sanders, 1960 (divorced, 1985); married Peggy A. Redshaw (a professor of biology), September 28, 1985; children: David Bryan, Deborah Jensen, Stephen Douglas. Education: Texas A & M University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1963; Duke University, M.A., Ph.D., 1967.

ADDRESSES: Home—608 North Cleveland, Sherman, TX 75090. Office—Department of English, Austin College, 900 North Grand Ave., Sherman, TX 75090; fax: 903-813-2368. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Austin College, Sherman, TX, began as assistant professor, became professor, 1967—, Henry L. and Laura H. Shoap Professor of English, 1997—. Telling Our Stories (autobiography writing project), director, 1990—.

MEMBER: National Council of Teachers of English, Texas Folklore Society, East Texas Historical Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named Piper Professor for Excellence in Teaching, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, 1980; Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, Center for American History, University of Texas—Austin, and Ottis Lock Award, East Texas Historical Association, both 1998, for Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum; Homer P. Rainey award for Distinguished Service, Austin College, 2001.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Edward Hake Phillips) Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum, Texas A & M University Press (College Station, TX), 1994.

(Editor, with Edward Hake Phillips and wife, Peggy A. Redshaw) Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum, Texas A & M University Press (College Station, TX), 1997.

(Coeditor) Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front, University of North Texas Press (Denton, TX), 2001.