{"id":1395,"date":"2012-02-16T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T17:45:22","slug":"henderson-bert-1903-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, ELBERT CALVIN, 1904-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet. Born&#8211; November 8, 1904, Glenwood, Crenshaw County. Parents&#8211; Albert Holloway and Jeffie Gertrude\u00a0(Faulkner) Henderson. Married&#8211;(1)\u00a0 Geraldine Downs, May 16, 1928;\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 Mary Middleton Smith, November 2, 1946. Education&#8211; Troy State Teachers College; University of Alabama. Published poems in such publications as the <em>American Mercury<\/em> and the <em>New York Times. <\/em>Employed as clerk at Exchange Hotel and Whitney Hotel, Montgomery. Member and president, Alabama Writers Conclave; member of the Advisory Board of the Civil War Centennial Commission. \u00a0Poet laureate of Alabama, 1959-1971. After the death of his wife in 1967, lived as a recluse, but continued to attend Alabama Writers Conclave meetings until 1971.\u00a0 Died September 14, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aliticom, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Grable, Janet C.\u00a0 &#8220;Bert (Elbert) Calvin Henderson,&#8221; <em>Alabama Librarian,\u00a0<\/em>XIII \u00a0(1962), 16-17.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blame Noah! Verses. Chicago; Dierkes Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Bright Armor. Emory University, Ga.; Banner Press, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Eternal Symphony. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>House of Paradoxes (poems) Emory University, Ga.; Banner Press, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Immortal Legions. Northport, Al.: American Southern, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimate Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet. Born&#8211; November 8, 1904, Glenwood, Crenshaw County. Parents&#8211; Albert Holloway and Jeffie Gertrude\u00a0(Faulkner) Henderson. Married&#8211;(1)\u00a0 Geraldine Downs, May 16, 1928;\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 Mary Middleton Smith, November 2, 1946. Education&#8211; Troy State Teachers College; University of Alabama. Published poems in such publications as the American Mercury and the New York Times. Employed as clerk at [&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-1395","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\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8151,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}