{"id":2026,"date":"2012-10-03T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T20:24:23","slug":"ward-mary-behrendsen-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"WARD, MARY BEHRENDSEN, 1898-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; Selma, Ala. Parents&#8211; Henry and Mary (Smitherman) Behrendsen. Married&#8211; Herbert J. Ward. Education&#8211; University of Alabama. Editor, Gammadion (literary magazine), 1925-1927; contributing editor, Yankee Humor, 1926-1927; associate editor, Poetry Forum, 1930-1931; feature writer, Birmingham News, 1932-1933; member, editorial staff, Alabama Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs Magazine, 1935-1936. Member&#8211; Alabama Writers Conclave, National League of American Pen Women, Poetry Society of Alabama and Birmingham Quill Club. Helped create the post of poet laureate of\u00a0Alabama; named\u00a0Poet Laureate of Alabama, 1954-1959, by governor Gordon Sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of American Women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Homes of Alabama and Their Tradition. Birmingham, Ala; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; Selma, Ala. Parents&#8211; Henry and Mary (Smitherman) Behrendsen. Married&#8211; Herbert J. Ward. Education&#8211; University of Alabama. Editor, Gammadion (literary magazine), 1925-1927; contributing editor, Yankee Humor, 1926-1927; associate editor, Poetry Forum, 1930-1931; feature writer, Birmingham News, 1932-1933; member, editorial staff, Alabama Federation of Women&#8217;s Clubs Magazine, 1935-1936. Member&#8211; Alabama Writers Conclave, National League [&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-2026","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\/2026","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=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}