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  • HAWIE, ASHAD GHGHE, 1891-1962

    Biography: Merchant. Born — Jabal Lubnam, Shuweir, Lebanon, December 23, 1891.   Parents– Malham and Mary (Seelaby) Hawie. Naturalized a U.S. citizen August 15, 1916.   Married– Jeannette Shory, Birmingham. Children– Three. Settled in south Mississippi, establishing a mercantile business. Later moved to Mobile. Served in the Alabama National Guard and the “Rainbow Division,” during World War…

  • VARNER, JEANNETTE JOHNSON, 1909-1992.

    Biography: Writer, translator, teacher, librarian. Born– August 12, 1909, in Selma, Ala. Parents– Chester Earle and Ruby Jeannette (West) Johnson. Married–James Oliver Tolbert, 1929 (divorced 1934); married  John Grier Varner, April 29, 1939. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1930, M.A., 1931; University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1938; postdoctoral study at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico, 1947.…

  • VAN EGMOND, PETER GEORGE, 1937-

    Biography: College professor; literary scholar. Born– October 25, 1937, in Montgomery, Ala. Parents– George Peter and Lois (Everett) Van Egmond. Married– Dorothy McKinnie, August 17, 1958. Children– Two. Education– Mississippi College, B.A., 1959; University of Mississippi, M.A., 1961; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1966. Taught at Davidson College, 1964-1966; University of Maryland, 1966-; Vanderbilt University,…

  • THOMPSON, JAMES JOSEPH, 1924-

    Biography: Educator. Born– May 1, 1925 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Education– Wagner College, B.A.; Columbia University, M.A.; University of Florida, Ed.D. Taught music in Florida public schools, 1951-1960; University of Florida, 1962-1963; Indiana State University, 1963-1967; University of South Alabama after 1967. Member– Association of Educational Communication and Technology and the Alabama Instructional Media Association.…

  • THOMAS, MARGARET F., 1909-1990

    Biography: Librarian. Born– May 7, 1909 in Birmingham. Education– Birmingham Southern College, A.B.; Emory University, A.B. (Lib. Sci.); studied summers at Columbia University, 1936-1940. Assistant or head librarian at Ensley Public Library; Walker Co. Library; Ensley High School; Birmingham Army Air Base; Robbins Field (Georgia), Howard College; Joint Universities Library; Randolph-Macon Womans College, and Ferrum…

  • THOMAS, DANIEL HARRISON, 1904-1999

    Biography: Historian; college professor. Born– Dec. 6, 1904 in Wetumpka, Ala. Parents– Walther Elihu and Lucy (McCoy) Thomas. Married– Margaret McWhinney, May 28, 1939. Children– One. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1925,  M.A., 1929; postgraduate work at University of Chicago; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1934.   Taught history in public and private schools in Alabama,…

  • THOMAS, CHAMINTNEY ELIZABETH,1899-1979

    Biography: Musician; teacher of music. Born– in St. Clair Co., Ala., 1899.  Married– Ralph Cage Thomas (Superintendent of Schools  in Russell County). Children– Four. Education– graduate of Maryville College (Tenn.). Taught grade school for 2 years; taught piano, organ, cello, and guitar in public school and privately. Wrote short stories and Bible stories for children.  Several…

  • TIDWELL, PEARL MAGNEASE ROGERS, 1906-2002

    Biography: Educator. Born– July 7, 1906 in Cleburne Co., Ala. Parents– John Alexander and Julia Allen (Parker) Rogers. Married– Charles Jefferson Tidwell. Children– Three. Education– Jacksonville State Teachers College, B.S. Resided at Alexandria, Calhoun Co., Ala., where she taught until retirement.  Died July 20, 2002. Source: from The Family of John and Julia Rogers…. Publication(s):…

  • THOMAS, MARY MARTHA HOSFORD, 1927-

    Biography: Educator; author. Born– Nov. 11, 1927, in Dallas, Tex. Parents– Hemphill Moffett and Gladys (Garstang) Hosford. Married– Philip B. Thomas, Apr. 12, 1949. Children– Five. Education– attended University of Arkansas, 1944-46; Southern Methodist University, B.A., 1948; University of Michigan, M.A., 1951,;  Emory University, Ph.D., 1971.   Taught history at Northern Michigan University, 1964-1968, Jacksonville…

  • THOMAS, DANIEL HOLCOMBE, 1906-2000.

    Biography: Attorney, jurist. Born– Aug. 25, 1906 in Prattville, Ala. Parents– Columbus Eugene and Augusta (Pratt) Thomas. Married– Dorothy Manning Quiana, Sept. 26, 1936 (died 1977). Married– Catherine J. Miller, Oct. 25, 1979.  Two children. Education– University of Alabama, LL.B., 1928; admitted to Alabama bar 1928. Served as a officer in the U.S. Navy, 1943-46.…

  • TEAFORD, RUTH E. ROMINE, 1927-

    Biography: Businesswoman, educator, free-lance writer. Born– Aug. 7, 1927, in Townley, Ala. Parents– Luther N. and Mary (Atkins) Romine. Married– Cecil Files, Oct. 15, 1942. Children– One. Married– Paul Teaford, Dec. 23, 1947. Married– Thomas H. Baker. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1968; M.A., 1975.  Employed by Arrow Co., 1960-1964, Paul’s Automotive Service, 1964-1974; English…

  • TAYLOR, ROBERT WOODDY, 1902-1999.

    Biography: Farmer, agronomist, forest manager. Born– Jan. 19, 1902. Parents– John R. and Dora Wooddy Taylor. Married– Beatrice Sarah Potts. Education– graduated from 7th Dist. Agricultural School in Albertville; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S.  Published articles in Progessive Farmer.  Died May 24, 1999. Source: SCRIPSIT; Ancestry.com Publication(s): Don’t Waste the Juice; Bits of History, Recollections and…

  • TATE, ALBERTA HINDS, 1896-1986.

    Biography: Music and dance educator. Born–1896,  Albertville, Ala. Parents– Thomas J. Hinds and Elizabeth C. Hinds. Married– Robert Lee Tate. Education– attended Lulie Compton Seminary [a private girls’ school in Birmingham] and Martha Washington College. With sister Gladys Hinds opened in Birmingham the Hinds School of Music, Drama and Dancing; both also worked at Maxwell Field in Montgomery.…

  • LIDDELL, VIOLA GOODE, 1901-1998

    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.…

  • LUCKEY, CARL FREEMAN, 1914-2003

    Biography: Physican. Born– July 16, 1914, Jackson, Tenn. Parents– David William and Mabel Dent (Freeman) Luckey. Married– Althea Ann Colvin, December 31, 1938. Children– Two. Education– B.A., Union University, 1936; M.D., Vanderbilt University, 1941. Served in the U.S. Army, 1941-1945 (achieved rank of major); interned, John Gaston Hospital, Memphis, 1941-1942; practiced medicine, Franklin, Tenn., 1945-1947;…

  • HUDSON, SUZANNE, 1953-

    Writer; educator.  Born 1953.  Children–one.  Education–University of South Alabama.  English and literature teacher and guidance counselor with the Fairhope, Alabama public schools.  Began writing as a college undergraduate;  left writing for several years to work as a teacher but returned to it twenty-five years later.  Published short stories in Penthouse, New Writers, Eastern Shore Quarterly, and Southern Bard. …

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  • WILSON, AUGUSTA JANE EVANS, 1835-1909

    Biography: Novelist. Born– May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Ga. Parents– Mathew Ryan and Sarah Skrine (Howard) Evans. Married– L.M. Wilson,  December 2, 1868. Education– Tutorship by mother; private schools; read extensively on her own. . Lived in Russell County, Ala., 1839-1845; San Antonio, Texas, 1845-1849; Mobile, 1849-1909. Broke engagement to James Spaulding, publisher of the New…

  • HOOPER, JOHNSON JONES, 1815-1862

    Humorist; newspaper editor; lawyer. Born– June 9, 1815, Wilmington, North Carolina.  Parents– Archibald and Charlotte de Berniere Hooper.  Married– Mary Mildred Brantley, 1842.  Children–two. Read law in his brother’s law office in New Bern, Alabama, 1835-1838; admitted to the bar, 1838; practiced law in in Lafayette and Dadeville.  Editor of the East Alabamian, LaFayette; the…

  • BARR, JOHN GORMAN, 1823-1858.

    Biography; Lawyer; author.  Born– November 22, 1823, Milton (Caswell County), North Carolina (moved to Alabama in 1835).  Parents– Thomas and Mary Jane Gorman Barr. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1841, M.A., 1842. Read law with Attorney Harvey Ellis in Tuscaloosa; admitted to the bar in 1843. Worked as a tutor in math at the University…

  • HOBSON, FRED COLBY, JR., 1943-

    Biography: Literary scholar; university professor, editor. Born– April 23, 1943, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Parents– Fred Colby and Miriam (Tuttle) Hobson. Married–Linda V. Whitney, June 17, 1967.  Children–one. Education– University of North Carolina, B.A., 1965; Duke University, M.A., 1967; UNC, Ph.D., 1972.  Editor / editorial writer for Associated Press, Charlotte; Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, 1966-1970. Taught at…

  • MAYFIELD, SARA, 1905-1979

    Biography: Journalist; writer; editor. Born– Tuscaloosa, Ala., September 10, 1905. Parents– James Jefferson and Susan Fitts (Martin) Mayfield. Married– John Allen Sellers, November 12, 1924 (divorced). Education– University of Paris, 1926; University of Chicago, 1927; A.B., Goucher College, 1928; University of London, 1928-89; M.A., University of Alabama, 1931; graduate work, Tulane University, 1943. Employed as…

  • HAARDT, SARA POWELL, 1898-1935

    Biography: Writer, teacher, suffrage activist. Born– Montgomery, March 1, 1898. Parents– John Anton and Venetia Hall Haardt. Married– H.L. Mencken, August 27, 1930. Education– Graduate of Margaret Booth Preparatory School, Montgomery, 1916; B.A., Goucher College, 1920. Teacher at Margaret Booth and at Goucher. Active in women’s suffrage crusade in Alabama. Contributed short stories and essays to Century…

  • HOFFMAN, ROY, 1953-

    Biography; Writer, teacher. Born 1953– Mobile.  Married– Nancy.  Children– one.  Worked for twenty years in New York City as a journalist, speechwriter, and teacher; later staff writer at the Mobile Register.  Publishes reviews and essays in journals and periodicals.  Teaches in the Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.  Winner of the…

  • GUFFIN, GILBERT LEE, 1906-1992

    Biography: Baptist minister; educator. Born– August 5, 1906, near Marietta, Ga. Parents– William Thomas and Nora (Eubanks) Guffin. Education– Mercer University, A.B., 1930; B.D., 1935; Th.M. (1936) and Th.D. (1941), Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Married– Lorene Parrish on August 30, 1930. Children– Two. Principal, junior high school, Mableton Ga., 1927-1928; in Marietta, 1930-1933. Ordained in…

  • FRANKLIN, TOM, 1963-

    Biography; Writer.  Born in Dickinson, Alabama, July 7, 1963.  Married Beth Ann Fennelly; children–two.  Education; University of South Alabama, B.A.; University of Arkansas, M.F.A., 1997.  Taught at University of South Alabama, Bucknell University, Knox College, Galesburg, IL;  Sewanee University, University of Mississippi. Writer-in-Residence, Sewanee University, 2002-03; John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence, University of Mississippi, 2001-02. Published short…

  • CRUSE, IRMA BELLE RUSSELL, 1911-2002

    Biography: Public relations, rate supervisor, editor, civic leader. Born– May 3, 1911, Hackneyville. Parents– Charles Henry and Nellie Dunn (Ledbetter) Russell. Married– Jesse Clyde Cruse, December 22, 1931. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham Southern College, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota; University of Alabama, A.B. in Journalism (1976); Samford, M.A. in English…

  • HARRIS, MARY IMOGENE, 1926-1981

    Biography: Teacher. Born– September 13, 1926,  Alabama City. Parents–John B. and Anne Bert McWhorter Harris. Education– Central State University, Edmund, Okla., B.A., 1947; M.A., Northwestern University, 1949; University of Tulsa, Ed.D., 1961; further study, University of Okalahoma. High school teacher, Burley, Idaho, 1948-1949; teacher of speech and English, Judson College, Marion, 1949-1952; speech teacher, Tulsa,…

  • FORMICHELLA, JOE, 1955-

    Biography; Writer. Education–University of South Alabama, M.A., 1996.  Publishes articles and stories in journals and anthologies.  Winner of the 1993 Hackney Award for Short Fiction.  Pushcart Prize nominee. Source; Author profiles in Climbing Mt. Cheaha. Publications; A Condition of Freedom.  River’s Edge, 2015. Here’s to You, Jackie Robinson; The Legend of the Prichard Mohawks. MacAdam/Cage, 2004. Murder…

  • WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO, 1859-1915

    Biography: Teacher; college founder; advocate and spokesman for racial advancement. Born– 1859 near Hale’s Ford, Franklin County, Va. Married– Fannie N. Smith in 1882. Children– One. Married– Olivia A. Davidson in 1889. Children– Two. Married– Margaret James Murray, October 12, 1893. Education– Hampton Institute, 1875. Taught in West Virginia, then at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.;…

  • ERICKSON, BEN, 1952-

    Biography; Woodworker; author.  Born; Mobile, 1952.  Married–deLancey. Children–two. Education; graduated from the University of South Alabama.  Has written articles published in journals, reviews, and anthologies, many on woodworking and restoration of old houses. Sources; Author information in Climbing Mt. Cheaha. Publications; Mobile’s Legal Legacy; Three Hundred Years of Law in the Port City.  Birmingham; Association…

  • CURRENT-GARCIA, EUGENE, 1908-1995

    Biography: Literary scholar; University professor. Born– July 8, 1908, New Orleans. Parents– Joseph Robustiano and Bertha (Ehrhardt) Current-Garcia. Married– Alva Garrett, June 18, 1935. Children– Three. Education– Tulane University, A.B., 1930; M.A., 1932; Harvard, A.M., 1942, Ph.D, 1947. Taught at the University of Nebraska, 1936-1939; Suffolk University, Boston, 1939-1942; Louisiana State University, 1944-1947; Auburn University,…

  • CURNUTT, KIRK, 1964-

    Biography; College professor; writer.  Born November 15, 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska.  Children–one.  Education; University of Missouri, B.A., 1987; Louisiana State University, Ph. D., 1993.  English instructor, Troy University at Montgomery, 1993-  .  Member F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.  Board member, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery. Managing Editor of journal F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Received Hackney Awards for…

  • COTTEN, NELL WYLLIE, 1908-1997

    Biography: Teacher; author of children’s stories. Born– October 16, 1908, Yonkers, N.Y. Parents– Alfred and Nellie (Forrester) Wyllie. Married– Lee Cotten, December 30, 1949. Lived in Mobile after her marriage.  Education– Florida State University, A.B., 1930. Taught elementary school in Clearwater, Fla., 1932-1949. Member AAUW, Alabama Writers’ Conclave, National League of American Penwomen. Died September 6, 1997.…

  • COTTLE, JOHN, 1952-

    Biography;  Attorney; writer. Born Atlanta, 1952.  Education– Birmingham-Southern, B.A.; University of Alabama Law School, 1978.  Practiced law in Alabama and Florida;  currently a senior attorney in the firm of Becker and Poliakoff, Ft. Walton Beach, FL.  Member of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.  Received the George Garrett Fiction Award, 2003, for The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels.  Sources;…

  • COBB, LORETTA DOUGLAS, 1944-

    Biography; Writer; editor; college instructor.  Married–William Sledge Cobb, August 15, 1965.  Children–one.  Education– University of Montevallo, B.A.; Bread Loaf School of Writing, Vermont.  Founder and Director of the Harbert Writing Center at the University of Montevallo.  Author of many articles, columns, and profiles.  Awarded the status of Director Emeritus of the Harbert Center on her…

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  • CARGO, ROBERT THOMAS, 1933-2012

    Biography: Literary scholar; University professor; art collector. Born– November 20, 1933, Hanceville. Parents–John T. and Mildred Cargo. Married– Helen McCain. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1955; University of Alabama, M.A., 1956; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1965. Taught at Snead State Junior College, 1956-1959; Fulbright scholar in France, 1959-1961, served on the faculty…

  • REED, WENDY M.

    Biography; Author; college instructor; television and radio producer-director.  Three children.  Education– University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.A. (1991), M.A. (1999); University of Alabama, Ph. D., 2010.  Instructor, Jefferson State Community College, 1999-2006; UAB, 1996-1999, University of Alabama, 2003-present. Wrote, produced, and directed public television programming for the University of Alabama Center For Public Television and…

  • SHPAKOVSKII, ANATOLII IGNATEVICH, 1895-

    Biography: Educator. Born– Feb. 27, 1895, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Education– Lyubgyana University, Yugoslavia. Taught in Yugoslavia, 1927-1941; in Germany, 1950-1951, and Jacksonville State University, 1957-1965; moved to Huntsville after retirement. Source: Anatol von Spakovsky; also from his book Freedom, Determinism, Indeterminism. Publication(s): Freedom, Determinism, Indeterminism. The Hague; M. Nijhoff, 1963. Die Perspektiven einer Kultur…

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  • BLAKELY, HUNTER BRYSON, 1894-1970

    Biography; Presbyterian minister;  college professor and administrator. Born April 27, 1894, Lancaster, South Carolina.  Parents– Hunter B. Blakely Sr. and Susan Marshall Blakely. Married Mary Morris; one child.  Education– Attended Erskine College; Princeton Seminary (B.D. 1919); Louisville Presbyterian Seminary; University of Edinburgh, Oxford University; University of Berlin; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D. , 1925. Held…

  • BROADUS, ELEANOR BOYCE, 1902-1974

    Biography: Librarian; teacher. Born– May 13, 1902, near Russellville. Parents– Boyce and Margaret Russell (Sargent) Broadus. Education– Judson College, A.B., 1923; George Peabody, M.A., 1926, B.S. in Library Science, 1933. Taught in Jefferson County Schools, 1923-1927, and at Henry County High School, 1927-1932. Librarian at Tarrant High School after 1933. The Sunday School Board chose…

  • BREYER, BERNARD RICH, 1919-1999

    Biography: Professor of English. Born– July 25, 1919, Nashville, Tenn. Married Mary Ann Bugg; Children– Three. Married Betty Jane Slemp.  Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1939; Louisiana State University, M.A., 1940; University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1948. U.S. Army, World War II. Professor of English at the University of Arizona, 1947-1949, and Auburn University, 1949-1985.  Awarded professor emeritus status on…

  • BREWER, SONNY, 1949-

    Biography; Author; editor; bookseller.  Born July 28, 1949.  Married; three children.  Owner of Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, 1997- .  Editor,  Mobile Bay Monthly; editor and publisher, Eastern Shore Quarterly, Red Bluff Review.  Founder, Southern Writers Reading Conference and chairperson, Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts.  Received the Alabama Library Association award for fiction for…

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  • ASKEW, WILLIAM KING, 1897-1992

     Biography: Engineer; educator. Born– August 20, 1897, Dayton, Marengo County.  Parents– Francis Barton and Bettie King (Jones) Askew. Married–Frances Juanita Deloach.  Children–four.  Education– Dayton Academy, 1903-1913; Marion Institute, 1913-1914; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1914- 1917. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1917-1918; design engineer in Birmingham for ten years; teacher-athletic coach for three years; high school principal; assistant…

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  • BARTON, MARLIN, 1961-

    Biography; Writer; teacher of writing. Born October 25,  1961, Montgomery.  Education; University of Alabama, B.S., 1985; Wichita State University, Kansas, M.F.A., 1990.  Taught writing at Auburn, Huntingdon College, Clemson University, Converse College.  Assistant director of the Writing Our Stories Project of the Alabama Writers Forum, 1997–.  Publishes short stories in journals and anthologies. Received the O.Henry Award.…

  • AMERINE, WILLIAM HENRY, 1878-1964

    Biography: Pharmacist, reporter. Born– June 17, 1878, Greenville. Parents– Miles Henry and Cynthia Selena (Lee) Amerine. Education– U.S. Military Academy. Served with the Alabama National Guard, erecting the first wireless telegraph station in Montgomery in 1915; served with the Red Cross in Europe during World War I; reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser. Died December 10,…