{"id":2179,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2179"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"shillito, martha lyman, 1892-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"SHILLITO, MARTHA LYMAN, 1892-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet, columnist, lecturer.  Born&#8211;  in 1892 in Birmingham.  Parents&#8211;  Henry Dickinson  and Lucy (Meredith) Lyman.  Married&#8211;  Walter Frederick Shillito in Dec. 1916.  Children&#8211;  Two.  Education&#8211;  attended Randolph Macon College.  Assistant editor of The Alabama Club Woman; edited column about Alabama writers; president of Poetry Society of Alabama; dean of poetry of Alabama Writers Conclave; member Birmingham Quill Club, Birmingham Poetry Club, and National League of American Pen Women; lectured and judged poetry competitions; wrote for radio productions. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Women, 1939-1940.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singing Flame.  Dallas, Tex.;  Kaleidograph Press, 1937.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Homes of Alabama and Their Tradition.  Birmingham Publishing Co., 1935.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet, columnist, lecturer. Born&#8211; in 1892 in Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Henry Dickinson and Lucy (Meredith) Lyman. Married&#8211; Walter Frederick Shillito in Dec. 1916. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; attended Randolph Macon College. Assistant editor of The Alabama Club Woman; edited column about Alabama writers; president of Poetry Society of Alabama; dean of poetry of Alabama Writers Conclave; [&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-2179","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\/2179","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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}