{"id":2237,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2237"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"wier, dara, 1949-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"WIER, DARA, 1949-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher. Born&#8211;  December 30, 1949, in New Orleans, La.  Parents&#8211;  Arthur Joseph and  Grace (Barrios) Dixon.  Married&#8211;  Allen Wier, April 2, 1969.  Education&#8211;  Louisiana State University; Longwood College; Bowling Green State University, M.F.A., 1974.  Taught at University of Pittsburgh; Hollins College; University of Alabama.  Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1980.  Member&#8211;  Authors Guild of the Authors League of America, Associated Writing Program.  President, Associated Writing Program. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 77; Alabama Public Library Service.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All You Have in Common.  Pittsburgh;  Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1984.  <\/p>\n<p>     Blood, Hook, &#038; Eye.  Austin, Tex.;  University of Texas Press, 1977. <\/p>\n<p>     The Book of Knowledge.  Pittsburgh;  Carneigie Mellon University Press, 1988. <\/p>\n<p>     The 8-Step Grapevine.  Pittsburgh;  Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher. Born&#8211; December 30, 1949, in New Orleans, La. Parents&#8211; Arthur Joseph and Grace (Barrios) Dixon. Married&#8211; Allen Wier, April 2, 1969. Education&#8211; Louisiana State University; Longwood College; Bowling Green State University, M.F.A., 1974. Taught at University of Pittsburgh; Hollins College; University of Alabama. Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1980. Member&#8211; Authors [&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-2237","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\/2237","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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}