Background
Greever, Gustavus Garland was born on April 4, 1883 in Lead Hill, Arkansas, United States. Son of William Adams and Lydia Catherine (Redus) Greever.
Greever, Gustavus Garland was born on April 4, 1883 in Lead Hill, Arkansas, United States. Son of William Adams and Lydia Catherine (Redus) Greever.
Bachelor of Arts, Central College, Fayette, Missouri, 1904. Master of Arts, Trinity College (now Duke U.), North Carolina, 1905. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1914.
Clair Stocking, June 17, 1908. 1 son, William Saint Clair. Head of English department, Durham (North Carolina) High School, 1905-1908.
Associate Professor of English, University of Arkansas, 1908-1912.
Sheldon traveling fellow from Harvard in Europe, 1914-1915. Associate Professor of English, Washington and Lee University, 1915-1917, Indiana University, 1917-1919.
Professor of English and head of department, Wesley College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1920-1921. Professor of English and acting head of department, Agricultural College of Utah, 1922-1923.
Professor of English, University of Colorado, 1925-1926, and summers, 1923, 25 and 26.
Professor of English, University of Texas, summer, 1927. Visiting Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1930-1935, professor, 1935-1949. Professor emeritus since 1949.
Served as private United States Army, July and August 1918. Member Modern Language Association America, Philological Association of Pacific Coast, American Association University professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Sigma. Member Methodist Church Company-Author: Century Handbook of Writing, 1918, 4th edit, 1942.
Married May Saint