From: KyArchives Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 9:19 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Bryant.Joseph.Jr.1999.Warren-Barren.OBIT Joseph Jr. Bryant May 4, 1999 Warren-Barren County KyArchives Obituaries Glasgow Daily Times, 6 May 1999 Name: Joseph A. Bryant, Jr. Residence: Lexington, KY Died: Tuesday, Central Baptist Hospital, age 79. Born: Glasgow, KY Authority on William Shakespeare and southern writers of the United States. Taught and chaired English department at the University of Kentucky many years, retired 1990. Wrote several books on Shakespeare that won national acclaim, was a University of Kentucky orator, chairman of the English departments at Syracuse University and the University of North Carolina; also taught at Duke University and the University of the South, held a bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University; a master's degree from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate from Yale University. Was ordained in 1976 into the priesthood of the Lexington's Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. Named by his colleagues in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences as Distinguished Professor - the college's highest honor for 1986-87; received the William B. Sturgill Award for outstanding contributions to graduate education at the University of Kentucky in 1988; had been a Ford Foundation Fellow, a Fullbright lecturer and a Sewanee Review Fellow. Survivors: Wife: Sarah Bryant Sons: Joseph Allen III of Lexington and Garnett Woodruff Bryant of Olney, MD One brother, one sister and 2 grandsons. Services: 11 am Saturday, church, W. R. Millard Mortuary-Southland, no burial location shown. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 Additional Comments: NOTE: I have no connection and no further information. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/