{"id":1944,"date":"2014-01-13T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2014-01-13T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:15:56","slug":"robinson-mariletta-sawyer-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"ROBINSON, MARILETA SAWYER, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, author. teacher. \u00a0Born&#8211; December 26, 1942, Kansas City, Kan. Parents&#8211; Thomas B. and Rebecca (Hurt) Sawyer. Married&#8211; Patrick Leland Robinson, March 26, 1973. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Grinnell College, B.A., 1965; Northern Arizona University, 1969-1970; University of New Mexico, M.A., 1973. Served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Togo, 1965-1967; assistant editor for Scott, Foresman Company, 1967-1969; teacher at Rough Rock Demonstration [Navajo] School, Ariz., 1970-1972; Instructor, Institute of Children&#8217;s Literature, 1986-88; Senior Editor, Highlights for Children magazine, 1988-2009. Member of the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Creative Writers of Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, vol. 101; web profile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Goat&#8217;s Bad Good Idea. New York; Crowell, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Editor, author. teacher. \u00a0Born&#8211; December 26, 1942, Kansas City, Kan. Parents&#8211; Thomas B. and Rebecca (Hurt) Sawyer. Married&#8211; Patrick Leland Robinson, March 26, 1973. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Grinnell College, B.A., 1965; Northern Arizona University, 1969-1970; University of New Mexico, M.A., 1973. Served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Togo, 1965-1967; assistant editor [&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-1944","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\/1944","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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}