{"id":1663,"date":"2012-11-06T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T23:07:11","slug":"moates-marianne-merrill-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"MOATES, MARIANNE MERRILL, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; Andalusia, Ala., July 12, 1942. Parents&#8211; Walter Oliver and Mary Jim (Hilson) Merrill. Married&#8211; James Thomas Moates, Jr., June 2, 1959. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; B.S., University of Alabama, 1975; graduate study, University of Alabama at\u00a0Birmingham; Samford University. Employed by Steeley Enterprises, Birmingham, 1983; Power of Positive Students Foundation, 1983-1984; McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 1984-1985; University of Alabama Special Studies, 1986, President Moates and<br \/>\nAssociates, 1993.\u00a0Member&#8211; president, Alabama Writers&#8217; Conclave; National State Poetry Society, Writing Today, Alabama Academy of Distinguished Authors; Magic City Writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marianne M. Moates, Birmingham, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Summer&#8217;s Sadness. New York; Vantage Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>A Bridge of Childhood; Truman Capote&#8217;s Southern Years. New York; H. Holt, 1989; rpt. University of Alabama Press, 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; Andalusia, Ala., July 12, 1942. Parents&#8211; Walter Oliver and Mary Jim (Hilson) Merrill. Married&#8211; James Thomas Moates, Jr., June 2, 1959. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; B.S., University of Alabama, 1975; graduate study, University of Alabama at\u00a0Birmingham; Samford University. Employed by Steeley Enterprises, Birmingham, 1983; Power of Positive Students Foundation, 1983-1984; McDonnell Douglas Corporation, [&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-1663","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\/1663","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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}