{"id":1279,"date":"2012-11-28T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:32:41","slug":"helm-thomas-william-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"HELM, THOMAS WILLIAM, 1919-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Radio announcer, editor, teacher. Born&#8211; May 3, 1919, in St. Augustine, Fla. Parents&#8211; Thomas William, Jr., and Grace (Spencer) Helm. Married&#8211;Dorothy Lorain Hunter, September 30, 1943. \u00a0Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College.\u00a0Served in US Navy, WWII; received a citation for bravery at Pearl Harbor.\u00a0Served as radio announcer at WRNL, Richmond (Va.); WDLP, Panama City (Fla.); WSGN, Birmingham; assistant editor, Progressive Farmer; forest ranger for Alabama State Forestry Service; creative writer for Florida State Board of Public Instruction.\u00a0\u00a0Member Authors Guild. \u00a0Died December 20, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dangerous Sea Creatures. New York; Funk &amp; Wagnalls, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Everglades; Florida Wonderland. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing Southern Salt Waters. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Coming! New York; Dodd, Mead, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes! Weather at its Worst.\u00a0 Dodd Mead, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Monsters of the Deep. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Ordeal by Sea:\u00a0 The Tragedy of the <em>U.S.S. Indianapolis. <\/em>New York: Dodd Mead, 19963.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea Lark. New York; A.A. Wyn, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Shark! Unpredictable Killer of the Sea. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Treasure Hunting Around the World. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>A World of Snakes. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Frank Murphy Story: His Years in Florida Prisons, His Rehabilitation, and His Conquest of Alcoholism.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Dodd Mead, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Radio announcer, editor, teacher. Born&#8211; May 3, 1919, in St. Augustine, Fla. Parents&#8211; Thomas William, Jr., and Grace (Spencer) Helm. Married&#8211;Dorothy Lorain Hunter, September 30, 1943. \u00a0Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College.\u00a0Served in US Navy, WWII; received a citation for bravery at Pearl Harbor.\u00a0Served as radio announcer at WRNL, Richmond (Va.); WDLP, Panama City (Fla.); WSGN, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","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=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8099,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}