Alfred Scott Bates (b. 1923)

Biography

Bates was born in Evanston, Illinois, and earned his B.A. at Carleton College. He took his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, then began teaching at the University of the South in 1954. In 1962 he began a long-term association with Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, which he continued, along with his teaching post, until his retirement.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• The Esthetics of Guillaume Apollinaire (doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1954)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1967)

Poetry

• Poems of War Resistance from 2300 B.C. to the Present (1969)
• The ABC of Radical Ecology (1982)
• Lupo's Fables (1983)
• Songs for the Queen of the Animals: A Book of Animal Poems (1992)
• Merry Green Peace (1995)
• The ZYX of Political Sex (1999)

Sources and Links

• Tennessee Authors

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