{"id":1638,"date":"2014-04-21T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:46:40","slug":"meeks-lillian-fort-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"MEEKS, LILLIAN FORT, 1903-1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; poet. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 17, 1903, Dallas County, Ala. Married&#8211; John H. Meeks. Education&#8211; Mississippi State University. Employed as English teacher for thirty-one years. Died May 29, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SCRIPSIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Soil. S.l.; Anderson Printery, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Pendrifts. (3 vols. entitled; Lute Songs, Metamorphis, and Lighted Candles). S.l.; Delta Branch, National League of\u00a0American Pen Women, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Wind and Hearthstone. Los Angeles; National Poetry Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Lillian Fort Meeks is held by the Gender Studies Collection in the University of Mississippi Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; poet. \u00a0Born&#8211; September 17, 1903, Dallas County, Ala. Married&#8211; John H. Meeks. Education&#8211; Mississippi State University. Employed as English teacher for thirty-one years. Died May 29, 1986. Source: SCRIPSIT. Publication(s): New Soil. S.l.; Anderson Printery, 1935. Pendrifts. (3 vols. entitled; Lute Songs, Metamorphis, and Lighted Candles). S.l.; Delta Branch, National League of\u00a0American Pen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}