{"id":2261,"date":"2012-11-09T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:04:25","slug":"weld-john-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"WELD, JOHN, 1905-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer, producer.  Born&#8211;  February 24, 1905, in Birmingham, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  Harry  Statham and Nellie (Farrow) Weld.  Married&#8211;  Katherine McElroy Paul, February 12, 1937.  Education&#8211;  Auburn University, 1921-1922.  Reporter, New York American, Paris Times, New York World, New York Herald (Paris).  Scenario writer, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures.  Freelance writer, 1935-1942.  Editor, Consolidated News of Consolidated Aircraft Company, 1942-1944.  Public relations director, Ford Motor Company&#8217;s West Coast Region, 1944-1949; automobile dealer, 1944-1957.  Publisher, Laguna Beach (Calif.) Post, 1951-.  Motion picture producer, 1960-; associate Vandenburg-Linkletter &amp; Associates, 1976.  Produced, &#8220;Freightboat around the World&#8221;; &#8220;Beirut to Baghdad&#8221;; &#8220;Ireland from a Gypsy Caravan&#8221;; &#8220;The Basque Sheepherder.&#8221;\u00a0 Died June 14, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the West; International Authors and Writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Cry for Me.  New York;  Scribner, 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Away Home.  Santa Barbara;  Mission Pub., 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Girl.  New York;  McBride, 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pfeiffer, M.D.  New York;  Scribner, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>The Missionary;  a Novel of the Early Southwest.  Stafford, Va.;  Northwoods Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The Partners.  New York;  Scribner, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Sabbath Has No End.  New York;  Scribner, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Stunt Man.  New York;  McBride, 1931.<\/p>\n<p>Young Man in Paris.  Chicago;  Academy Chicago, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer, producer. Born&#8211; February 24, 1905, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Harry Statham and Nellie (Farrow) Weld. Married&#8211; Katherine McElroy Paul, February 12, 1937. Education&#8211; Auburn University, 1921-1922. Reporter, New York American, Paris Times, New York World, New York Herald (Paris). Scenario writer, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures. Freelance writer, 1935-1942. Editor, Consolidated News of Consolidated [&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-2261","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\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}