{"id":1611,"date":"2013-07-15T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T17:46:47","slug":"knox-john-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"KNOX, JOHN, 1905-1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born September 17, 1905, Carlsbad, N.M.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas Spence Knox and Lucile Pauline Schwerdtfeger Knox.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Elsie Lorene Oliver, 24 March 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Abilene Christian College; McMurry College. Spent his early childhood in Eutaw, Ala., where his father was a Presbyterian minister; later moved to South Carolina, Texas, and back to Decatur, Ala. Freelance writer of short stories, short novels, and poems; wrote the first official history of Morgan County, Ala., based on a series of articles for the Decatur Daily.\u00a0 Died May 6, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A History of Morgan County, Alabama. Decatur, Ala.; Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>The Story of Decatur, Alabama. Decatur, Ala.; Mayor and Council, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born September 17, 1905, Carlsbad, N.M.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Thomas Spence Knox and Lucile Pauline Schwerdtfeger Knox.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Elsie Lorene Oliver, 24 March 1941. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Abilene Christian College; McMurry College. Spent his early childhood in Eutaw, Ala., where his father was a Presbyterian minister; later moved to South Carolina, Texas, and back to Decatur, [&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-1611","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\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8563,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}