{"id":2240,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2240"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"wier, allen, 1946-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"WIER, ALLEN, 1946-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher.  Born&#8211;  September 9, 1946, in San Antonio, Tex.  Parents&#8211;  Ralph A. and  George Ann (Marrs) Wier.  Married&#8211;  Dara Dixon, April 2, 1969.  Education&#8211;  Baylor University, B.A., 1968.  Louisiana State University, M.A., 1970; Bowling Green State University, M.F.A., 1974.  Yard clerk, Kansas City Southern Railroad, 1966-1967; laborer, All-Texas Ranch Supply, Waco, Tex., 1967-1968.  Teacher at Longwood College, Va., 1970-1972; Carnegie Mellon University, 1974-1975; Hollins College, 1975-1980; University of Alabama, 1980.  Published articles in anthologies and periodicals. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 77.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blanco.  Baton Rouge, La.;  Louisiana State University Press, 1978.  <\/p>\n<p>     Departing as Air.  New York;  Simon &#038; Schuster, 1983. <\/p>\n<p>     A Place for Outlaws.  New York;  Harper &#038; Row, 1989. <\/p>\n<p>     Things About To Disappear;  Stories.  Baton Rouge, La.;  Louisiana State University Press,      1978. <\/p>\n<p>     Voicelust&#8230;  Lincoln;  University of Nebraska, 1985. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher. Born&#8211; September 9, 1946, in San Antonio, Tex. Parents&#8211; Ralph A. and George Ann (Marrs) Wier. Married&#8211; Dara Dixon, April 2, 1969. Education&#8211; Baylor University, B.A., 1968. Louisiana State University, M.A., 1970; Bowling Green State University, M.F.A., 1974. Yard clerk, Kansas City Southern Railroad, 1966-1967; laborer, All-Texas Ranch Supply, Waco, Tex., 1967-1968. Teacher [&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-2240","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\/2240","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=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}