{"id":1238,"date":"2014-05-06T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:12:59","slug":"durham-frances-gildart-ruffin-1889-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"DURHAM, FRANCES GILDART RUFFIN, 1889-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newspaper correspondent; educator. \u00a0Born&#8211;February 27, 1889. \u00a0Mobile. Parents&#8211; Francis G. and M. E. (Henry) Ruffin. Education&#8211; St. Joseph&#8217;s College, Emmitsburg, Md., B.A. Married&#8211; Joseph F. Durham. Employed as teacher; public relations officer for Mobile Schools; \u00a0Mobile correspondent for the Birmingham News and Age Herald. Member and president of Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman of the Alabama Anthology Committee; League of American Penwomen. Died June 22, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dungi Speaks. St. Louis, Mo.; Charles E. Luntz Pub., 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile: A History Reader.\u00a0 Mobile Public Schools, 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Sea Women; Poems. Portland, Me.; House of Falmouth, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Swallows in the Air; Certain Haiku. Charleston, Ill.; Prairie Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928. Atlanta; E. Hartsock, The Bozart Press, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Newspaper correspondent; educator. \u00a0Born&#8211;February 27, 1889. \u00a0Mobile. Parents&#8211; Francis G. and M. E. (Henry) Ruffin. Education&#8211; St. Joseph&#8217;s College, Emmitsburg, Md., B.A. Married&#8211; Joseph F. Durham. Employed as teacher; public relations officer for Mobile Schools; \u00a0Mobile correspondent for the Birmingham News and Age Herald. Member and president of Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman of the [&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-1238","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\/1238","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=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}