{"id":912,"date":"2012-10-24T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=912"},"modified":"2017-09-14T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T17:33:51","slug":"campbell-william-edward-march-1894-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"CAMPBELL, WILLIAM EDWARD MARCH, 1893-1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; business executive; art collector. Born&#8211; September 18, 1893, Mobile. Parents&#8211; John and Suzy (March) Campbell. Education&#8211; Studied at Valparaiso University, 1913-1914; studied law at the University of Alabama, 1915-1916. Served In the US Marines in World War I;\u00a0 wounded and gassed and never completely recovered from his wounds. Received the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Croix de Guerre.\u00a0Worked for\u00a0\u00a0the Waterman Steamship Company, 1920-1938; rose from a secretarial job to become vice-president of the company; in 1939 retired\u00a0to become a freelance writer.\u00a0\u00a0Wrote novels and short stories, many set in Alabama; he\u00a0signed his fiction &#8220;William March.&#8221; Acquired an impressive collection of modern French art. Died May 15, 1954.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of American Biography online; Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>99 Fables.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The Bad Seed. New York; Rinehart, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Come In At The Door. New York; Smith &amp; Haas, 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Company K. New York; Random House, 1933.<\/p>\n<p>The First Sunset. Cincinnati; Little Man Press, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Wife and Other Stories. New York; Smith &amp; Haas, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>The Looking Glass. Cincinnati; Little, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>October Island. Cincinnati; Little, Brown, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Some Like Them Short. Cincinnati; Little, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallons. New York; Random House, 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Trial Balance; the Collected Short Stories. New York; Harcourt, Brace &amp; Co., 1945.<\/p>\n<p>William March Omnibus.\u00a0 New York; Rinehart, 1956.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Last Letters of Blessed Thomas Moore.\u00a0 London; Manresa, 1924.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of William Edward March Campbell, including correspondence, typescripts, drafts and revisions, are held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.\u00a0 A collection of his correspondence is housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library at Yale University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; business executive; art collector. Born&#8211; September 18, 1893, Mobile. Parents&#8211; John and Suzy (March) Campbell. Education&#8211; Studied at Valparaiso University, 1913-1914; studied law at the University of Alabama, 1915-1916. Served In the US Marines in World War I;\u00a0 wounded and gassed and never completely recovered from his wounds. Received the Navy Cross, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","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\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}