{"id":1150,"date":"2017-10-18T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:55:28","slug":"coleman-william-laurence-1920-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"COLEMAN, WILLIAM LAURENCE, 1920-1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novelist, playwright, editor. Born&#8211; August 2, 1920, Bartow, Georgia. Parents&#8211; John Aldine and Delle Coleman. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1942. U.S. Navy, WWII.\u00a0 Served as associate editor of Ladies Home Journal, 1947-50; Collier&#8217;s, 1951-55; Good Housekeeping, 1961-63; and McCall&#8217;s, 1964-72. Wrote novels and plays. Member Authors Guild and Authors League of America. \u00a0Died August 13, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adams Way. New York; Dutton, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Clara. New York; Dutton, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Escape the Thunder. New York; Dutton, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Vanity, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>King. New York; McGraw, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8212;I Cat Hattie, and Kingdom Come,&#8221; a Burlesque Melodrama in Three Acts. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Jolly&#8217;s Progress.\u00a0 Play produced in New York City, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The Legacy of Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Look Away, Beulah Land; a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Mark.\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Next of Kin. Play. Produced NY, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Orphan Jim, a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>A Place for Polly.\u00a0 Play produced in New York City, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Sam; a Novel. New York; D. McKay, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Ship&#8217;s Company. Cincinnati; Little, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>The Sound of Spanish Voices. New York; Dutton, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Lady, a Novel. Cincinnati; Little, 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Time Moving West. New York; Dutton, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>A Warm Body.\u00a0 Play produced in New York City, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wreath Without Laurel&#8221;; an Anti-war Fantasy. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Novelist, playwright, editor. Born&#8211; August 2, 1920, Bartow, Georgia. Parents&#8211; John Aldine and Delle Coleman. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1942. U.S. Navy, WWII.\u00a0 Served as associate editor of Ladies Home Journal, 1947-50; Collier&#8217;s, 1951-55; Good Housekeeping, 1961-63; and McCall&#8217;s, 1964-72. Wrote novels and plays. Member Authors Guild and Authors League of America. \u00a0Died [&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-1150","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\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}