{"id":2043,"date":"2011-07-06T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2018-02-12T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:29:13","slug":"waldron-ann-wood-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"WALDRON, ANN WOOD, 1924-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalist. Born– December 14, 1924, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Earl Watson and Elizabeth (Roberts) Wood. Married– Martin O. Waldron, October 18, 1947. Children– Four. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1945; Princeton University, graduate study. Reporter, Atlanta Constitution, 1945-1947; feature writer\/reporter, Tampa Tribune, 1957-1960; weekly columnist and correspondent, St. Petersburg Times, 1960-1965; book editor, Houston Chronicle, 1970-1975. Public relations representative, Princeton University, 1975-89. Published book reviews and articles in Publishers Weekly, Nation and Science Digest. Awarded Notable Book Citation from American Library Association; Best Book Citation from Child Study Association; Notable Book for Social Studies Citation from Children’s Book Council.\u00a0 Died July 2, 2010.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors Online.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bluebury Collection. New York; Dutton, 1981.<\/p>\n

Claude Monet. New York; Abrams, 1991.<\/p>\n

Close Connections, Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance. New York; Putnam, 1987.<\/p>\n

Eudora:\u00a0 A Writer’s Life.\u00a0 Doubleday, 1998.<\/p>\n

Francisco Goya.\u00a0 Abrams, 1992.<\/p>\n

The French Detection. New York; Dutton, 1979.<\/p>\n

Hodding Carter:\u00a0 Reconstruction of a Racist.\u00a0 Algonquin, 1993.<\/p>\n

The House on Pendleton Block. New York; Hastings House, 1975.<\/p>\n

The Integration of Mary-Larkin Thornhill. New York; Dutton, 1975.<\/p>\n

The Luckie Star. New York; Dutton, 1977.<\/p>\n

Pearl S. Buck:\u00a0 Compassion for Two Worlds.\u00a0 Las Cruces, NM:\u00a0 Sofwest Press, 1998.<\/p>\n

Rachel Carson:\u00a0 Perseverance to Save the Planet.\u00a0 Las Cruces, NM: Sofwest Press, 1998.<\/p>\n

Scaredy Cat. New York; Dutton, 1978.<\/p>\n

True or False?; Amazing Art Forgeries. New York; Hastings House, 1983.<\/p>\n

Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your Florida Government. Tallahassee University of Florida Presses, 1965.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Papers of Ann Wood Waldron are held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Journalist. Born– December 14, 1924, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Earl Watson and Elizabeth (Roberts) Wood. Married– Martin O. Waldron, October 18, 1947. Children– Four. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1945; Princeton University, graduate study. Reporter, Atlanta Constitution, 1945-1947; feature writer\/reporter, Tampa Tribune, 1957-1960; weekly columnist and correspondent, St. Petersburg Times, 1960-1965; book editor, Houston […]<\/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-2043","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\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}