Biography:

Writer. Born– December 18, 1901, Gastonburg. Parents– Robert James and Annie L. (Gaston) Goode. Married- Oxford Stroud, 1922.  One child. Married- Will Lithgow Liddell, June 6, 1934. Children– Two. Education– Judson College, M.A., 1922. Taught in Wilcox and Marengo County schools. Member– National League of Pen Women; Wilcox County Historical Society; Camden Culture Club. Published stories in Saturday Evening Post, Holland’s Magazine, Literary Messenger, Georgia Review, and others. Honors– A Place of Springs received the Alabama Library Association Nonfiction Authors Award, 1981. Named outstanding clubwoman of the year, Federated Women’s Clubs of Alabama, 1982. Died May 16, 1998.

Source:

Viola Goode Liddell, Camden; Encyclopedia of Alabama.

Publication(s): 

Grass Widow; ; Making My Way in Depression Alabama.  University of Alabama Press, 2004.

A Place of Springs. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.

Reflections in Rhyme. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Publishing Co., 1944.

With a Southern Accent. Norman; University of Oklahoma Press, 1948.