{"id":2181,"date":"2016-04-08T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:14:21","slug":"sheppard-mona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"SHEPPARD, MONA, 1907-1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal administrator, consultant.\u00a0Born in 1907 in\u00a0Central Hills, Ala. Parents&#8211; Edgar Morgan and Allie Sheppard. Education&#8211; Studied creative writing at University of Alabama. Tried unsuccessfully to sell short stories in New York; correspondence clerk for U.S. Treasury Department; during World War II managed correspondence for War Manpower Commission; after war was organization and methods examiner for National Archives; helped organize correspondence for Veterans Administration; vice president of Leahy &amp; Co., a New York management consultant.\u00a0 Died November 14, 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coronet (March 1956).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plain Letters. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Federal administrator, consultant.\u00a0Born in 1907 in\u00a0Central Hills, Ala. Parents&#8211; Edgar Morgan and Allie Sheppard. Education&#8211; Studied creative writing at University of Alabama. Tried unsuccessfully to sell short stories in New York; correspondence clerk for U.S. Treasury Department; during World War II managed correspondence for War Manpower Commission; after war was organization and methods examiner [&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-2181","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\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}