{"id":4505,"date":"2015-06-17T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2018-01-30T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:14:02","slug":"dunagan-ted-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"DUNAGAN, TED, 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; journalist; businessman.\u00a0 Born December 17, 1943, Coffeeville.\u00a0 Education: Georgia State University.\u00a0 Served in the U.S.Army, Vietnam.\u00a0 Worked in sales and marketing for Chanel, Inc., for 26 years; retired 2003.\u00a0 Full-time writer after 2003.\u00a0 Writes features and a column for the Monticello (Georgia) News.\u00a0 Selected the Georgia Author of the Year in Young Adult Fiction in 2009, 2011, and 2012; received the first Yerby Award, 2013. Yellow Watermelon was named to the inaugural list of &#8220;25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read&#8221; by the Georgia Center for the Book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NewSouth Books website; Ted Dunagan website; Contemporary authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salvation of Miss Lucretia. NewSouth, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Secret of the Saltifa.\u00a0 NewSouth, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble on the Tombigbee.\u00a0 NewSouth, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Watermelon. NewSouth, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; journalist; businessman.\u00a0 Born December 17, 1943, Coffeeville.\u00a0 Education: Georgia State University.\u00a0 Served in the U.S.Army, Vietnam.\u00a0 Worked in sales and marketing for Chanel, Inc., for 26 years; retired 2003.\u00a0 Full-time writer after 2003.\u00a0 Writes features and a column for the Monticello (Georgia) News.\u00a0 Selected the Georgia Author of the Year in Young Adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}