{"title":"Alex Vernon","description":"From Prairie Village, Kansas, ALEX VERNON graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (the only literature major in his class of over a thousand), served in combat as a tank platoon leader in the Persian Gulf War, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The recipient of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship, he is the M.E. \u0026amp; Ima Graves Peace Distinguished Professor of English at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alex-vernon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}