{"id":1042,"date":"2012-02-16T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:19:39","slug":"deal-babs-hodges-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"DEAL, BABS HODGES, 1929-2004."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novelist.\u00a0Born&#8211; June 23, 1929, Scottsboro. Parents&#8211; Hilburn Tyson and Evelyn (Coffey) Hodges. Married&#8211; Borden Deal, 1952 (divorced 1975). \u00a0Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1952. Employed by Jackson County School System, 1950; typist for U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., Birmingham Brass Company, 1951-1952. Began writing fiction in 1956; published her first short story in 1958.\u00a0\u00a0Published novels, poetry, and short stories.\u00a0 Member of the Authors Guild. Received awards from Mystery Writers of America, 1967; Alabama Library Association. Died February 20, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p>Atchison, Ray M., and Eubanks, Jen.\u00a0 &#8220;Babs Hodges Deal:\u00a0 Alabama Novelist,&#8221;<em>\u00a0 Alabama Librarian, <\/em>XIII (1962), 93-94.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acres of Afternoon. New York; McKay, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The Crystal Mouse. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Fancy&#8217;s Knell. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Friendships, Secrets and Lies. New York; Fawcett, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Goodnight Ladies. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Grail. New York; McKay, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>High Lonesome World. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Always Three O&#8217;Clock. New York; McKay, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Night Story. New York; McKay, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The Reason for Roses. Garden City, N.Y; Doubleday, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Games. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting to Hear from William. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The Walls Came Tumbling Down. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Novelist.\u00a0Born&#8211; June 23, 1929, Scottsboro. Parents&#8211; Hilburn Tyson and Evelyn (Coffey) Hodges. Married&#8211; Borden Deal, 1952 (divorced 1975). \u00a0Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1952. Employed by Jackson County School System, 1950; typist for U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., Birmingham Brass Company, 1951-1952. Began writing fiction in 1956; published her first short story 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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}