{"id":1712,"date":"2011-05-30T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:12:34","slug":"mason-sara-elizabeth-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"MASON, SARA ELIZABETH, 1911-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian; novelist. Born&#8211; Demopolis, September 2, 1911.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Edwin Bolton and Fenton Brasfield Mason. Education&#8211; Agnes Scott College, two years; B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Library Science, Peabody College. Employed as a teacher, Gadsden High School; and in U.S.government school,\u00a0Frankfort, Germany; assistant director, Gadsden Public Library; cataloger, University of Alabama; Head of Catalog Department, \u00a0Birmingham Public Library, 1931; map curator, Rucker Agee Cartographical Collection,\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0Public Library. \u00a0Published several detective novels in the 1940&#8217;s. Member&#8211; Etowah County Historical Society. Died August 15, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Encyclopedia of Alabama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Feather. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Glovers of Marengo County, Ala. Linden, Ala.? 1960?<\/p>\n<p>The House that Hate Built. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>A List of Nineteenth Century Maps of the State of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Public Library, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Rents a Room. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>The Whip. New York; W. Morrow, 1948.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confederate Imprints in the University of Alabama Library. University, Ala. s.n., 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian; novelist. Born&#8211; Demopolis, September 2, 1911.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Edwin Bolton and Fenton Brasfield Mason. Education&#8211; Agnes Scott College, two years; B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Library Science, Peabody College. Employed as a teacher, Gadsden High School; and in U.S.government school,\u00a0Frankfort, Germany; assistant director, Gadsden Public Library; cataloger, University of Alabama; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}