{"id":1773,"date":"2014-05-19T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:02:22","slug":"mcdowell-michael-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"McDOWELL, MICHAEL, 1950-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter and novelist; author of horror and suspense novels. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 1, 1950, Enterprise, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Eugene and Marian (Mulkey) McDowell. Education&#8211; B.A., 1972, Harvard University; Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978. Taught screenwriting at Tufts and Boston Universities in the 1990&#8217;s. Member&#8211; National Gay Task Force, Massachusetts Fair Share. Wrote script for Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, and other movies and television programs. Died December 27, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Amulet. New York; Avon, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater (6 vols. entitled; The Flood, The Levee, The House, The War, The Fortune and The Rain). New York; Avon, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Clue. New York; Fawcett, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Cold Moon Over Babylon. New York; Avon, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The Elementals. New York; Avon, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Gilded Needles. New York; Avon, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Jack and Susan in 1913. New York; Ballantine, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Jack and Susan in 1933. New York; Ballantine, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Jack and Susan in 1953. New York; Ballantine, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Katie. New York; Avon, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Toplin. Santa Cruz, Calif.; Scream Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blood Rubies.\u00a0 Avon, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Canary.\u00a0 Villard, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Cobalt.\u00a0 St. Martin&#8217;s, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Slate.\u00a0 Villard, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Vermillion; a Mystery. New York; Avon, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Wicked Stepmother.\u00a0 Avon, 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Screenwriter and novelist; author of horror and suspense novels. \u00a0Born&#8211; June 1, 1950, Enterprise, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Eugene and Marian (Mulkey) McDowell. Education&#8211; B.A., 1972, Harvard University; Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978. Taught screenwriting at Tufts and Boston Universities in the 1990&#8217;s. Member&#8211; National Gay Task Force, Massachusetts Fair Share. Wrote script for Beetlejuice, The [&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-1773","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\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9073,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}