Milner, Jay Dunston, 1923-2011
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Name (Latin)
Milner, Jay Dunston, 1923-2011
Date of birth
1923-10-30
Date of death
2011-12-11
Field of activity
Creative writing
Journalism
Occupation
Authors
College teachers
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Funeral Home Website by Batesville, Inc., viewed Sept. 16, 2015(Dunston Milner, longtime newspaper reporter, author, football coach, journalism professor and former book review columnist, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, at his home in Fort Worth. Jay was born Oct. 30, 1923 in Colorado Springs, Colo. He attended Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech University, and left college to join the U.S. Navy during World War II. After his military service, he earned B.A. in 1948 and M.A. in 1951 from University of Southern Mississippi, where he also played football. After college, Jay worked at the Hattiesburg American, and later as managing editor for the Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Miss. He covered political races and racial injustice news, which was the subject of his first book, "Incident at Ashton." In 1959, he moved to New York to serve as assistant to the editorial page editor for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1965, he moved back to Texas and joined the faculty of Texas Christian University as professor of journalism, and in 1969 joined Southern Methodist University as acting chair of the journalism department. He then moved to Lufkin, where he was writing a book review column for 15 years. He returned to Fort Worth in 1995 and began work on his memoir, "Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp through the High-flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies." The book was published in 1998)
- His Confessions of a maddog, 1998:CIP t.p. (Jay Dunston Milner) data sheet (b. 1923)
- Incident at Ashton, 2016:ECIP title page (Jay Milner) Data View (This is a reprint of a novel first published in 1961, with a new foreword by John Tisdale)
Wikipedia description:
Jay Milner (October 30, 1926 – 2011) was an American journalist, professor and author who worked both for mainstream and alternative publications, and was associated with a group of Texas writers who called themselves the Maddogs and gained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for their literary skills as well as their hard partying.
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