{"id":5573,"date":"2016-06-03T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2016-06-03T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:34:08","slug":"johnson-rheta-grimsley-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, RHETA GRIMSLEY, 1953-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; columnist. Born&#8211;November 10, 1953, Colquitt, Ga.; grew up in Montgomery. Married&#8211; Jimmy Johnson; Don Grierson. Education&#8211;Auburn University, B.A., 1977. Reporter for Memphis Commercial-Appeal and Scripps-Howard News Service, 1980-1994; for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1994-2001. Writes a syndicated column for King Features. Winner of many awards for her writing:\u00a0 1974-75 Pacemaker Award; the 1982 American Society of Newspaper Editors&#8217; Distinguished Writing Award; \u00a01984 Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for outstanding human interest writing; 1985 National Headliner Award; 1986 inducted into the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Hall of Fame; 2010 Clarence Cason Award for Non-Fiction Writing from the University of Alabama School of Communications.\u00a0 One of three finalists for the Pulitzer Award, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NewSouth website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dogs Buried over the Bridge:\u00a0 A Memoir in Dog Years.\u00a0 NewSouth, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Good Grief:\u00a0 The Story of Charles Schulz.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Pharos Books, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Hung the Moon&#8230;and Warmed our Cold Cold Hearts.\u00a0 NewSouth Books, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Man&#8217;s Provence:\u00a0 Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana.\u00a0 NewSouth, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Echoes of Robert E. Lee High School, The First Decade, 1955-65.\u00a0 NewSouth, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>They Didn&#8217;t Put That on the Huntley-Brinkley!:\u00a0 A Vagabond Reporter Encounters the New South.\u00a0 Athens:\u00a0 University of Georgia Press, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Journalist; columnist. Born&#8211;November 10, 1953, Colquitt, Ga.; grew up in Montgomery. Married&#8211; Jimmy Johnson; Don Grierson. Education&#8211;Auburn University, B.A., 1977. Reporter for Memphis Commercial-Appeal and Scripps-Howard News Service, 1980-1994; for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1994-2001. Writes a syndicated column for King Features. Winner of many awards for her writing:\u00a0 1974-75 Pacemaker Award; the 1982 American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","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=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5584,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}