{"id":2024,"date":"2013-05-08T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:16:30","slug":"ward-donald-g-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"WARD, DONALD G., 1911-1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author; teacher, editor. Born&#8211; December 9, 1911, in Scipioville, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Claude Mastin and Mae (Bishop) Ward. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Newton, \u00a0June 24, 1936. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Syracuse University, A.B., 1935, Ph.D., 1941; studied law, 1943-1945. Taught at State University of New York, Brockport, 1939-1945. Editor, Western Publishing Co., Racine, Wisc., and New York City, 1945-1955. Freelance editor and writer, 1955-58; Managing editor, New York State Dept. of Labor, 1958-1959; freelance editor and writer after 1959. Taught history and political science at Alabama State University, 1970. Also wrote under the name Powers Tracy.\u00a0 Died February 21, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cowboys and Cattle Country. New York; American Heritage Publishing Co., 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Dark of the Soul. New York; Tower Publications, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Gunsmoke; 10 Short Stories Based on the CBS-TV Program. New York; Ballantine Books, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andre the Giant.\u00a0 Creative Education, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Archery. New York; Athletic Institute, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Sturgeon&#8217;s West. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Index to the Collected Catalogues of Dr. A. S. W. Rosebach, 1904-1951. New York; Arno Press, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Favorite Stories of Hypnotism. New York; Dodd, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bits of Silver; Vignettes of the Old West. New York; Heritage House, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Black Magic; Thirteen Chilling Tales. New York; Mayflower, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Branded West; Western Writers of America Anthology. Boston; Houghton, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Great Short Novels of the American West. New York; Collier Books, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Hoof Trails and Wagon Tracks. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneers West; 14 Stories of the Old Frontier. New York; Dell Pub., 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Streets. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Author; teacher, editor. Born&#8211; December 9, 1911, in Scipioville, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Claude Mastin and Mae (Bishop) Ward. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Newton, \u00a0June 24, 1936. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Syracuse University, A.B., 1935, Ph.D., 1941; studied law, 1943-1945. Taught at State University of New York, Brockport, 1939-1945. Editor, Western Publishing Co., Racine, Wisc., and New York City, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}