{"id":1337,"date":"2014-08-18T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:41:04","slug":"greene-frances-nimmo-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"GREENE, FRANCES NIMMO, 1867-1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer, teacher, librarian. Born&#8211; April 5, 1867. Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; Thomas Finley and Virginia (Owen) Greene. Education&#8211; Tuscaloosa Female College.\u00a0 Local correspondent for the Philadelphia <em>Times<\/em>, 1883-86; Taught in Birmingham and Montgomery; principal of Capitol Hill School, Montgomery and of La Fayette Public School; in 1909, assistant to the library division of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History; Director of the Birmingham Public Library; columnist and women&#8217;s page editor of the <em>Birmingham News. <\/em>Resigned in 1913 and returned to Montgomery to devote her life to writing. Wrote chiefly children&#8217;s books and textbooks. \u00a0Active supporter of Birmingham Little Theater.\u00a0 Died December 9, 1937.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama, Vol. 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America First. New York; Scribner, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil to Pay. New York; Scribner, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Into the Night; a Story of New Orleans. New York; Grossett &amp; Dunlap, 1909.<\/p>\n<p>Legends of King Arthur and his Court. Boston; Ginn &amp; Co., 1901.<\/p>\n<p>My Country&#8217;s Voice. New York; Scribner, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>One Clear Call. New York; Scribner, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>The Right of the Strongest. New York; Scribner, 1913.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Adam, a Comedy in Three Acts. Montgomery, Ala.; 1915.<\/p>\n<p>The Ultimate American, a Comedy. Montgomery, Ala.; 1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Ideals; a Series of Readers for Schools. New York; Scribner, 1920.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Enemy; a Drama in Three Acts. New York?; (Mimeographed), 193-?<\/p>\n<p>With Spurs of Gold; Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds. Boston; Little, Brown, &amp; Co., 1905.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer, teacher, librarian. Born&#8211; April 5, 1867. Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; Thomas Finley and Virginia (Owen) Greene. Education&#8211; Tuscaloosa Female College.\u00a0 Local correspondent for the Philadelphia Times, 1883-86; Taught in Birmingham and Montgomery; principal of Capitol Hill School, Montgomery and of La Fayette Public School; in 1909, assistant to the library division of the Alabama State [&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-1337","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\/1337","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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}