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.
Glasgow Daily Times, 6 May 1999
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