{"id":1134,"date":"2017-11-06T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:08:11","slug":"cook-ella-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"COOK, ELLA BOOKER, 1883-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artist; writer. Born&#8211;August 24, 1883, Attala County, Mississippi. Reared in the Black Belt of Alabama. Parents&#8211;Monroe A. and Mollie M. Brown Booker.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Victor A. Cook. Education&#8211; Rural education was supplemented by teachers her parents brought to the farm from time to time. Lived in Houston, Texas, after her marriage.\u00a0 Worked as an artist (drawings). Died December 26, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967; Find a Grave website..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain Sam&#8217;s Daughter. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Enchanted Acres. New York; Fortnay&#8217;s, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>It Could be Heaven. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>A Magnolia for Joan. New York; Pelican Press, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Signal of Promise. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>These Are My Jewels. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Artist; writer. Born&#8211;August 24, 1883, Attala County, Mississippi. Reared in the Black Belt of Alabama. Parents&#8211;Monroe A. and Mollie M. Brown Booker.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Victor A. Cook. Education&#8211; Rural education was supplemented by teachers her parents brought to the farm from time to time. Lived in Houston, Texas, after her marriage.\u00a0 Worked as an artist [&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-1134","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\/1134","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=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}