{"id":1394,"date":"2012-08-03T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2018-04-05T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:49:19","slug":"gaither-frances-ormond-jones-1889-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"GAITHER, FRANCES ORMOND JONES, 1889-1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; May 21, 1889, in Somerville, Tenn.; grew up in Corinth, MS\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Paul Tudor and Annie (Smith) Jones. Married&#8211; Rice Gaither, April 25, 1912.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Mississippi State College for Women, B.A., 1909. Taught briefly in Corinth and lived in Mobile and Fairhope after her marriage; moved to New York City in 1929 and worked as a free lance writer. Published many short stories and reviews in various periodicals;\u00a0 wrote children&#8217;s books during the 1930s; adult fiction in the 1940s. <em>Double Muscadine<\/em> was a\u00a0Book-of-the-Month Club selection, 1949.\u00a0 Died October 28, 1955.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bain&#8217;s Southern Writers; a Biographical Dictionary, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Double Muscadine. New York; Macmillan, 1949,<\/p>\n<p>The Fatal River, the Life and Death of LaSalle. New York; H. Holt Co., 1931.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Drinking Gourd. New York; Macmillan, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Little Miss Cappo. New York; Macmillan, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>The Pageant of Columbus with a Masques of I.I.&amp;C. Columbus, Miss.; Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, 1915.<\/p>\n<p>The Painted Arrow. New York; Macmillan, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cock Crows. New York; Macmillan, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarlet Coat. New York; Macmillan, 1934.<\/p>\n<p>The Shadow of the Builder. Charlottesville, Va.; Arundel Co. Inc., 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Shores of Happiness; a Pageant . Charlottesville, Va.; F.J.O. Gaither, 1919.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of papers of Frances Ormond Gaither and Rice Gaither is held by the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; May 21, 1889, in Somerville, Tenn.; grew up in Corinth, MS\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Paul Tudor and Annie (Smith) Jones. Married&#8211; Rice Gaither, April 25, 1912.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 Mississippi State College for Women, B.A., 1909. Taught briefly in Corinth and lived in Mobile and Fairhope after her marriage; moved to New York City in 1929 [&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-1394","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\/1394","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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}