{"id":2197,"date":"2014-10-10T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2014-10-10T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:05:23","slug":"windham-amasa-benjamin-1905-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"WINDHAM, AMASA BENJAMIN, 1905-1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born&#8211; June 7, 1905, in Gordo, Ala. Parents John J. and Nannie Estelle (Ezell) Windham. Married&#8211; Kathryn Tucker, February 10, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1934; Columbia University. Artist, feature writer and copy editor, Birmingham Age-Herald, 1928-1941. Served in U.S. Navy, 1941-1946. Southern editor, Electrical Merchandising, McGraw-Hill, 1946-1956. Active in Birmingham Little Theatre; in charge of federal theatre project, 1930&#8217;s. Recognized philatelist, expert genealogist, story teller. Died March 7, 1956.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Windham, Selma, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Prominent Families with Alabama Connections. Selma, Ala.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>The Windham Family of England, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. Sandy Springs, Ga.; s.n., 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playwright:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gummy (One Act). 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Lions in Alderson (Three Acts). 1935.<\/p>\n<p>You Can&#8217;t Beat Fate (One Act). 1928.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Playwright:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College Interlude (10 Scenes). Tampa, Fla.; Tampa Federal Theatre, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood (17 Revue Sketches). Tampa, Fla.; Tampa Federal Theatre, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Mister Petruchio (Three Acts). 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Now Is the Time for All Good Men (14 Scenes). 1931.<\/p>\n<p>One Night in April (One Act). 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Safe is Democracy (One Act). 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born&#8211; June 7, 1905, in Gordo, Ala. Parents John J. and Nannie Estelle (Ezell) Windham. Married&#8211; Kathryn Tucker, February 10, 1946. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1934; Columbia University. Artist, feature writer and copy editor, Birmingham Age-Herald, 1928-1941. Served in U.S. Navy, 1941-1946. Southern editor, Electrical Merchandising, McGraw-Hill, 1946-1956. Active in Birmingham [&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-2197","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\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}