{"id":4472,"date":"2015-06-12T08:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:40:10","slug":"bell-helen-norris-1916-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4472","title":{"rendered":"NORRIS, HELEN, 1916-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><br \/>\nWriter; professor of English. Born June 22, 1916, Miami; moved to Montgomery at an early age. Parents&#8211; Elmer and Louise Brown Norris. Children&#8211;one. Education;\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A., 1938; M.A., 1940; additional graduate work at Duke University and the University of Alabama, where she was a student of Hudson Strode. \u00a0Assistant Professor of English at Huntingdon College, 1966-79; freelance writer after 1979.\u00a0 Received the Harper Lee Award for Alabama&#8217;s Distinguished Writer of the Year, 2000.\u00a0 Elected to Alabama Authors Hall of Fame in\u00a0inaugural class, 2015. Winner of many literary awards, including a Pushcart Prize, two Andrew Lytle Awards, and five O&#8217;Henry Awards.\u00a0 Poet Laureate of Alabama, 1999-2013. Died November 18, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Burning Glass. LSU Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Wife: Stories. University of Illinois Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>For the Glory of God, Macmillan, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>More than Seven Watchmen.\u00a0 Zondervan, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Rain Pulse.\u00a0 Timberline Press, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Something More than Earth.\u00a0Little, Brown, \u00a01940.<\/p>\n<p>Walk with the Sickle Moon.\u00a0 Birch Lane Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Water into Wine.\u00a0University of Illinois Press, \u00a01988.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Is Round.\u00a0 Curbow Publications, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; professor of English. Born June 22, 1916, Miami; moved to Montgomery at an early age. Parents&#8211; Elmer and Louise Brown Norris. Children&#8211;one. Education;\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A., 1938; M.A., 1940; additional graduate work at Duke University and the University of Alabama, where she was a student of Hudson Strode. \u00a0Assistant Professor of English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}