{"id":1442,"date":"2016-06-17T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:48:45","slug":"inman-robert-frederick-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"INMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK, 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer (novels and screenplays). Born&#8211; August 22, 1943, Elba. Parents&#8211; Louis Frederick and Emma Margaret (Cooper) Inman. Married&#8211; Paulette Strong, April 15, 1967. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1965, M.F.A., 1979. Employed by WSFA-TV, Montgomery, 1965-1968; press secretary for Governor Albert Brewer 1968-1970; employed by WBTV, Charlotte, N.C., 1970-1975; worked for the University of Alabama, 1975-1979; for WBTV, 1979-1996. Free-lance writer after 1996. Author of plays and filmscripts as well as novels.Member Authors Guild; Writers Guild; Dramatists Guild; PEN American Center; North Carolina Writers Forum. Honors&#8211; Outstanding Alumnus of the Department of Broadcast and Film Communication, University of Alabama; first prize for fiction, Birmingham Festival of Arts; three-time winner of Outstanding Fiction Award from Alabama Library Association; \u00a0various awards for television journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Inman, Charlotte, North Carolina; contemporary authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Bus.\u00a0 Charlotte, NC:\u00a0 Novello Festival Press, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Saturday.\u00a0 Little, Brown, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy Queen Days.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Little, Brown, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor&#8217;s Lady.\u00a0 John F. Blair, Publisher, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Home Fires Burning. Boston; Little Brown, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>My Friend Delbert Earle and Other Notes in Closing; Television Essays. Charlotte; Hometown Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>A Note in Closing. Charlotte, North Carolina; Hometown Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Old Dogs and Children.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Little, Brown, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Hiding Place:\u00a0 Uncovering the Legacy of Charlotte-Area Writers:\u00a0 An Anthology.\u00a0 Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer (novels and screenplays). Born&#8211; August 22, 1943, Elba. Parents&#8211; Louis Frederick and Emma Margaret (Cooper) Inman. Married&#8211; Paulette Strong, April 15, 1967. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1965, M.F.A., 1979. Employed by WSFA-TV, Montgomery, 1965-1968; press secretary for Governor Albert Brewer 1968-1970; employed by WBTV, Charlotte, N.C., 1970-1975; worked for the [&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-1442","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\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}