{"id":1465,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1465"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"houston, robert, 1940-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, ROBERT, 1940-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linguist, writer, teacher.  Born&#8211;  1940, Bessemer.  Education&#8211;  Birmingham-Southern; University of Iowa Writers Workshop, M.A., Ph.D.  Served in the U.S. Air Force  as a Russian linguist; taught at Breadloaf School of English and Breadloaf Writers Conferences, George Mason University, University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico; Universidad Catalica in Lima, Peru, and at the University of Arizona.  Published non-fiction articles in the New York Times, Mother Jones and Southern Exposure.  Fulbright Lecturer in Peru. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ararat.  New York;  Avon, 1982.  <\/p>\n<p>     Bisbee &#8217;17.  New York;  Pantheon Books, 1979. <\/p>\n<p>     Blood Tango.  New York;  Avon, 1984. <\/p>\n<p>     Cholo.  New York;  Avon, 1981. <\/p>\n<p>     A Drive With Ossie.  Syracuse, N.Y.;  Salt Mound Press, 1970. <\/p>\n<p>     The Fourth Codex.  Boston;  Houghton Mifflin, 1988. <\/p>\n<p>     The Line.  New York;  Ballantine, 1986. <\/p>\n<p>     Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.  New York;  Ballantine, 1986. <\/p>\n<p>     The Nation Thief.  New York;  Pantheon Books, 1984. <\/p>\n<p>     The 16th of September Game.  New York;  Ballantine, 1985. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leon Felipe;  the Last Troubadour.  Tucson, Ariz.;  Bluemon Press,                 1979. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Linguist, writer, teacher. Born&#8211; 1940, Bessemer. Education&#8211; Birmingham-Southern; University of Iowa Writers Workshop, M.A., Ph.D. Served in the U.S. Air Force as a Russian linguist; taught at Breadloaf School of English and Breadloaf Writers Conferences, George Mason University, University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico; Universidad Catalica in Lima, Peru, and at the University [&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-1465","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\/1465","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=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}