{"id":1696,"date":"2013-02-13T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:53:47","slug":"mayfield-sara-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"MAYFIELD, SARA, 1905-1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; writer; editor. Born&#8211; Tuscaloosa, Ala., September 10, 1905. Parents&#8211; James Jefferson and Susan Fitts (Martin) Mayfield. Married&#8211; John Allen Sellers, November 12, 1924 (divorced). Education&#8211; University of Paris, 1926; University of Chicago, 1927; A.B., Goucher College, 1928; University of London, 1928-89; M.A., University of Alabama, 1931; graduate work, Tulane University, 1943. Employed as a play reader, casting director, New York City, 1931-1932; Rockland County Theater, 1932; special correspondent, Baltimore Sun, 1928-1929; Paris Herald, 1929; New York Herald Tribune, 1931; Transradio Press, New York City, 1938-1945; Birmingham News, 1945-1946; assistant editor, University of Alabama Press, 1967-1969; contributing editor, 1969-1972. Honors&#8211; Alabama Library Association Literary Award, 1970.\u00a0 Died January 10, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, New York Times, January 15, 1979<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Constant Circle; H.L. Mencken and His Friends. New York; Delacorte Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Exiles from Paradise; Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. New York; Delacorte Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Mona Lisa, the Woman in the Portrait; a Fictional Biography. New York; Grossett &amp; Dunlap, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Sara Mayfield are held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; writer; editor. Born&#8211; Tuscaloosa, Ala., September 10, 1905. Parents&#8211; James Jefferson and Susan Fitts (Martin) Mayfield. Married&#8211; John Allen Sellers, November 12, 1924 (divorced). Education&#8211; University of Paris, 1926; University of Chicago, 1927; A.B., Goucher College, 1928; University of London, 1928-89; M.A., University of Alabama, 1931; graduate work, Tulane University, 1943. Employed as [&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-1696","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\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8965,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/8965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}