Clark, William Bedford

William Bedford Clark, educator and author, was born 23 January 1947, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was an instructor of English at Louisiana State University (1972-1973); professor of English at North Carolina State University (1974-1977), and Texas A & M University (1977- ) and held the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in African American studies at Yale (1973-1974). His research area is Southern literature and he edited CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ROBERT PENN WARREN (1981), and authored THE AMERICAN VISION OF ROBERT PENN WARREN (c1991), which he originally called "Canaan's Grander Counterfeit: the American Vision of Robert Penn Warren."