Novelist. Born– December 28, 1928, Troy. Parents– Jesse Hill and Lucille (Musgrove) Ford. Married–\u00a0Sally Davis. Children–four.\u00a0 Married Lillian Pellettieri Chandler. Education:\u00a0Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1951; University of Florida, M.A., 1955; University of Oslo, 1961-1962. Reporter for the Nashville Tennessean while at Vanderbilt. Served as a naval officer during Korean War. Employed as news writer by the Florida Extension Division, 1953-1955; director of public relations for the Tennessee Medical Association, 1955-1956; assistant director of public relations for American Medical Association, 1956-1957; writer-in-residence at the University of Rochester, 1974; Memphis State University; and the University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1977-78.\u00a0Free-lance writer, 1977-96.\u00a0Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966; received\u00a0the Alabama Library Association Author’s Awards, 1966; National Book Award, 1966; Edgar Award for best short story, 1976. Died June 1, 1996.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n Marquis who’s who online; Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n The Conversion of Buster Drumwright. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1964.<\/p>\n The Feast of St. Barnabas. Boston; Little, Brown, 1969.<\/p>\n Fishes, Birds and Sons of Men. Boston; Little, Brown, 1967.<\/p>\n The Jail. New York: Glen Ober Associates, 1970.<\/p>\n The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. Boston; Little, Brown, 1965; rpt. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.<\/p>\n The Life of Edward Potter, Jr. Nashville; Commerce Union Bank, 1977.<\/p>\n Mountains of Gilead. Boston; Little, Brown, 1961.<\/p>\n The Raider. Boston; Little, Brown, 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novelist. Born– December 28, 1928, Troy. Parents– Jesse Hill and Lucille (Musgrove) Ford. Married–\u00a0Sally Davis. Children–four.\u00a0 Married Lillian Pellettieri Chandler. Education:\u00a0Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1951; University of Florida, M.A., 1955; University of Oslo, 1961-1962. Reporter for the Nashville Tennessean while at Vanderbilt. Served as a naval officer during Korean War. Employed as news writer by the […]<\/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-1183","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\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}