{"id":1866,"date":"2012-08-01T08:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2018-10-12T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:45:12","slug":"palmer-thomas-waverly-jr-1891-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"PACKER, NANCY HUDDLESTON, 1925-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; university professor. Born&#8211; May 2, 1925, Washington, D.C. Parents&#8211; Rep. George and Bertha (Baxley) Huddleston. Married&#8211; Herbert L. Packer, March 15, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Birmingham-Southern College, A.B., 1945; University of Chicago, M.A., 1947; Stanford University, 1959-1960. Employed as a staff writer by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1952-1954. Taught at Stanford University, 1968-1993; Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford, 1988-1993.\u00a0 Published short stories in various periodicals and anthologies. Member of the American Association of University Professors.\u00a0 Received the Dinkelspiel Award and the Dean&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stanford.\u00a0 Received the Richard W. Lyman Award for faculty volunteer service in 2000. Awarded Professor Emeritus status at Stanford, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In My Father&#8217;s House; Tales of an Unconformable Man. Santa Barbara, Calif.; J. Daniel, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Jealous-Hearted Me and Other Stories.\u00a0 Daniel, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Old Ladies; Stories.\u00a0 Daniel, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Small Moments and Other Stories. Urbana, Ill.; University of Illinois Press, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The Women Who Walk. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Short Story; an Introduction. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Writing Worth Reading; a Practical Guide. New York; St. Martin&#8217;s, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Writing Worth Reading; The Critical Response.\u00a0 Boston; Bedford, 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; university professor. Born&#8211; May 2, 1925, Washington, D.C. Parents&#8211; Rep. George and Bertha (Baxley) Huddleston. Married&#8211; Herbert L. Packer, March 15, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Birmingham-Southern College, A.B., 1945; University of Chicago, M.A., 1947; Stanford University, 1959-1960. Employed as a staff writer by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1952-1954. Taught at Stanford University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}