{"id":1587,"date":"2018-08-13T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:03:56","slug":"lavender-william-1921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"LAVENDER, WILLIAM, 1921-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician, writer. Born&#8211; December 23, 1921, Elrod. Parents&#8211; Claude B. and Maggie Mae (Neel) Lavender. Married&#8211; Mary Bridget Kanitz, 1949. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.Mus., 1946; University of Southern California, M.Mus., 1949. Served in U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-1946; composer, supervisor of sound track recording, documentary film production center, Aerospace Audio-visual Service, Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, Calif., 1950-.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children of the River. New York; Jove Publications, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Chinaberry. New York; Pyramid, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Fields Above the Sea. New York; Jove, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Flight of the Seabird. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Journey to Quiet Waters. New York; Jove, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Just Jane:\u00a0 A Daughter of England,Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution.\u00a0 San Diego:\u00a0 Har<\/p>\n<p>Stone Well. New York; Jove, 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician, writer. Born&#8211; December 23, 1921, Elrod. Parents&#8211; Claude B. and Maggie Mae (Neel) Lavender. Married&#8211; Mary Bridget Kanitz, 1949. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.Mus., 1946; University of Southern California, M.Mus., 1949. Served in U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-1946; composer, supervisor of sound track recording, documentary film production center, Aerospace Audio-visual Service, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}