{"id":1916,"date":"2014-07-09T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:02:15","slug":"ryan-harriet-fitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"RYAN, HARRIET FITTS, 1891-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actress, journalist. Born&#8211; Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; W. C. and\u00a0Eleanor (Hewitt) Fitts. Married&#8211; Judge Bernard Ryan, 1923. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Mobile schools. Acted in the theatre companies of Laura Hope Crewes, Margaret Auglin, and Madame Yorake.\u00a0 Worked as a newspaper correspondent in the 1920&#8217;s and 1930&#8217;s; wrote a syndicated column, &#8220;Grits and Gravy.&#8221;\u00a0 Lived in Gaines, Orleans, New York, after her marriage.\u00a0 Helped to found Actor&#8217;s Equity;\u00a0 made a Honorary Life Member in 1979.Died January 4, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Ala. Dept. of Archives and History; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mother of the Groom. New York; Longmans, Green, 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Actress, journalist. Born&#8211; Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; W. C. and\u00a0Eleanor (Hewitt) Fitts. Married&#8211; Judge Bernard Ryan, 1923. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Mobile schools. Acted in the theatre companies of Laura Hope Crewes, Margaret Auglin, and Madame Yorake.\u00a0 Worked as a newspaper correspondent in the 1920&#8217;s and 1930&#8217;s; wrote a syndicated column, &#8220;Grits and Gravy.&#8221;\u00a0 Lived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}