Background
Wallace Gray was born on July 13, 1927, in Alexandria, Louisiana. He was the son of Allison Thomas and Lyma Alice Gray.
Wallace Gray
1140 College Dr, Pineville, LA 71360, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Louisiana College. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Louisiana State University. He got a Master of Arts.
1130 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Columbia College. He got a Doctor of Philosophy.
1140 College Dr, Pineville, LA 71360, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Louisiana College. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Louisiana State University. He got a Master of Arts.
1130 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States
Wallace Gray studied at Columbia College. He got a Doctor of Philosophy.
(Discusses the works of Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes...)
Discusses the works of Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Swift, Dostoevsky and Eliot.
https://www.amazon.com/Homer-Joyce-Wallace-Gray/dp/0025451707
1985
Wallace Gray was born on July 13, 1927, in Alexandria, Louisiana. He was the son of Allison Thomas and Lyma Alice Gray.
Wallace Gray attended Louisiana College, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in 1946. He also studied at Louisiana State University and received a Master of Arts in 1951. Besides, Gray graduated from Columbia College. There he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1958.
Wallace Gray served in the United States Navy in 1944-1946. Then Gray started to work at Columbia College in 1953, where he spent the bulk of his teaching career. He continued teaching until the time of his death on December 21, 2001, when he died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four. Gray taught one of the most famous literature courses, "Eliot, Joyce, Pound," for twenty years and also served as assistant dean of students. At the time of his death, Wallace Gray was the teacher with the longest service in literature humanities at Columbia.
Aside from teaching, Wallace Gray was a playwright. His The Cowboy and the Tiger was a long-running musical for children that was also broadcast on television. Gray also wrote and published a book titled Homer to Joyce, an extension of his classroom work. In it, the author examined eighteen of the most influential books of the Western World, including Homer's Iliad, Thomas Stearns Eliot's The Waste Land, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Virgil's Aeneid, among others. Gray used these diverse titles as a basis for discussion of the human condition in Western culture.
Wallace Gray was widely known as a writer and educator. He taught at Columbia College for almost fifty years, right up to his death in 2001. His popularity with both students and staff won him the Mark Van Doren Award as well as Columbia's Great Teacher Award and Award for Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum in 1997.
(Discusses the works of Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes...)
1985Quotations: "I know more about 'Ulysses' than anyone else in the world, and I'm going to teach it all to you."
