{"id":1338,"date":"2011-06-01T08:44:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:50:47","slug":"greenhaw-harold-wayne-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"GREENHAW, HAROLD WAYNE, 1940-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer. Born– February 17, 1940, Sheffield. Parents– Harold Reed and Myrtle (Able) Greenhaw. Married (1) Faye Berry, 1965; (2) Sarah Virginia Maddox, 1972. Education– Study at Instituto Allende, Mexico, 1959-1960; University of Alabama, B.S., 1966. Technical writer, newspaper reporter, writer of television scripts, and editor. Sports reporter for Tuscaloosa News, 1958-62; sports columnist, Graphics <\/em>weekly, 1963-64; writer for education project at Draper Correctional Center, 1964-65. Reporter at\u00a0Alabama Journal,<\/em> 1965-76; editor and publisher, Alabama Magazine, <\/em>1984-88.\u00a0\u00a0 Director of Alabama Bureau of Tourism, 1993-95. Served on White House Conference on Travel and Torism, 1995.\u00a0 Appointed to Alabama Humanities Forum Board of Directors, 2000.\u00a0Winner of Harper Lee Award from Alabama Writer’s Forum, 2006; Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, University of Alabama College of Communications, 2005. Reporting award, Associated Press Managing Editors Association, 1968; Nieman Fellow, Harvard, 1972-1973.\u00a0 Died May 31, 2011.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encyclopedia of Alabama (online).<\/p>\n

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1973.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alabama; A State of Mind.\u00a0 Montgomery; Black Belt Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Alabama on My Mind; Politics, People, History, and Ghost Stories. Montgomery, Ala.; Sycamore Press, 1987.<\/p>\n

Alabama: Portrait of A State. Montgomery:\u00a0 Black Belt Press, 1997.<\/p>\n

Beyond the Night;\u00a0 A Remembrance.\u00a0 Montgomery; Black Belt Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Elephants in the Cottonfields; Ronald Reagan and the New Republican South. New York; Macmillan, 1982.<\/p>\n

Fighting the Devil in Dixie; How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.\u00a0 Chicago; Lawrence Hill Books, 2010.<\/p>\n

Flying High; Inside Big Time Drug Smuggling. New York; Dodd, 1984.<\/p>\n

A Generous Life; W. James Samford Jr.\u00a0 Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2009.<\/p>\n

Ghosts on the Road; Poems of Alabama, Mexico, and Beyond. Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Golfer. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1967.<\/p>\n

King of Country.\u00a0 Montgomery; Black Belt Press, 1994.<\/p>\n

The Long Journey; A Novel.\u00a0 Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Making of a Hero; The Story of Lieutenant William Calley Jr. \u00a0Louisville, Ky.; Touchstone Pub. Co., 1971.<\/p>\n

Montgomery, the Biography of a City.\u00a0 Montgomery; Advertiser Company, 1993.<\/p>\n

Montgomery, the River City.\u00a0 Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2002.<\/p>\n

My Heart Is in the Earth; True Stories of Alabama and Mexico.\u00a0 Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Spider’s Web, A Novella and Other Stories.\u00a0 Montgomery; River City Publishers, 2003.<\/p>\n

Tombigee and Other Stories.\u00a0 Montgomery; Sycamore Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Watch Out for George Wallace. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1976.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montgomery: Center Stage in the South: A Contemporary Portrait.\u00a0 Chatsworth, CA: Windsor Publications, 1990.<\/p>\n

Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People who Broke the Back of Jim Crow.\u00a0 Chicago:\u00a0 Lawrence Hill Press, 2006.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Wayne Greenhaw are held by the Library at Auburn University Montgomery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Writer. Born– February 17, 1940, Sheffield. Parents– Harold Reed and Myrtle (Able) Greenhaw. Married (1) Faye Berry, 1965; (2) Sarah Virginia Maddox, 1972. Education– Study at Instituto Allende, Mexico, 1959-1960; University of Alabama, B.S., 1966. Technical writer, newspaper reporter, writer of television scripts, and editor. Sports reporter for Tuscaloosa News, 1958-62; sports columnist, Graphics […]<\/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-1338","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\/1338","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=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}