{"id":1114,"date":"2011-05-05T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:01:19","slug":"counselman-mary-elizabeth-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"COUNSELMAN, MARY ELIZABETH, 1911-1994."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; November 19, 1911, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; John Saunders and Nettie Young (McCrory) Counselman. Married&#8211; Horace B. Vinyard, November 13, 1941. \u00a0Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama College for Women for one year; University of Alabama for two summers; correspondence courses in journalism from the Newspaper Institute. Reporter for the Birmingham News; instructor in creative writing at Gadsden State Junior College and at the University of Alabama. Founder, publisher, and editor of Verity Publishing Company.\u00a0Began writing at an early age; best-known story, &#8220;Three Marked Pennies,&#8221; was written at age fifteen.\u00a0\u00a0Wrote more than four hundred poems and stories; 68 published in the Saturday Evening Post; contributed stories to Weird Tales, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping. Many dramatized on television. Writings translated in at least eighteen languages.\u00a0\u00a0 Edited &#8220;Year at the Spring&#8221; magazine, 1977-80. Lecture at writers&#8217; gatherings throughout the South.\u00a0 Member American Penwomen and National Fantasy Fan Federation. Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1976-77.\u00a0 Received an award from the National Fantasy Fan Federation for short story &#8220;Overture.&#8221; Died November 13, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Horace Vinyard, Gadsden, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>African Yesterdays.\u00a0 Gadsden, Al.:\u00a0 Verity Publishing, 1975; revised edition, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Supernatural.\u00a0 Verity, n.d.<\/p>\n<p>The Eye and the Hand. S.l.; s.n., 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Face of Fear and other poems. Pensacola, Fla.; Edilon Press, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth Door.\u00a0 Strange Books, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Half in Shadow.\u00a0 Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Move Over&#8211;It&#8217;s Only Me.\u00a0 Verity,, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of the papers of Mary Elizabeth Counselman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; November 19, 1911, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; John Saunders and Nettie Young (McCrory) Counselman. Married&#8211; Horace B. Vinyard, November 13, 1941. \u00a0Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Alabama College for Women for one year; University of Alabama for two summers; correspondence courses in journalism from the Newspaper Institute. Reporter for the Birmingham News; instructor in creative writing [&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-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","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=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}