Richmond C. Beatty

Richmond C. Beatty was born on January 6, 1905, in Shawnee, Oklahoma.[1][2][3] He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where his father, William Henry Beatty, was a "cotton buyer."[2] His mother was Caroline Barbour.[2] He had a brother and two sisters.[2]

Beatty graduated from Birmingham-Southern College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1926.[1][3] He subsequently attended Vanderbilt University, where he earned a master's degree in 1928 and a PhD in 1930.[1][3]

Beatty began his career as an English professor at Tennessee State Teachers College (later known as the University of Memphis) from 1930 to 1935.[1][3] He was an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1935 to 1937.[1][3] He was an associate professor of English and American Literature at Vanderbilt University from 1937 to 1946, when he became a full professor.[1][3] He retired from academia in 1956, and he joined the staff of The Tennessean as the literary editor.[1][2]

Beatty was the author of several books, including biographies. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940.[3] He was a member of the Modern Language Association.[2]

Beatty married Floy Ward in 1927.[1][2] They resided at 3627 Hoods Hill Road in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville.[2] He survived throat cancer in 1956.[2]

Beatty died on October 9, 1961, at his Nashville residence, and he was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Nashville.[2]

• Beatty, Richmond C. (1932). William Byrd of Westover.
• Parks, Edd Winfield (1935). English Dramas. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. OCLC 971338057.
• Beatty, Richmond C. (1936). Bayard Taylor, Laureate of the Gilded Age.
• Beatty, Richmond C. (1938). Lord Macaulay, Victorian Liberal. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. OCLC 252002434.
• Beatty, Richmond C. (1942). James Russell Lowell. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. OCLC 776378468.
• Beatty, Richmond C.; Watkins, Floyd C.; Young, Thomas Daniel, eds. (1952). The Literature of the South. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company.
• Beatty, Richmond C.; Bradley, Sculley; Long, E. Hudson, eds. (1961). The American Tradition in Literature. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

• Walker, William E.; Welker, Robert L., eds. (1964). Reality and Myth: Essays in American Literature in Memory of Richard Croom Beatty. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. OCLC 67142430.