{"id":5940,"date":"2016-09-28T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:15:46","slug":"kittinger-jo-susenbach-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5940","title":{"rendered":"KITTINGER, JO SUSENBACH, 1955-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer of children&#8217;s books; journalist; potter; craftsperson.\u00a0 Born&#8211; October 8, 1955, Miami, Florida.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Donald and Vivian Susenbach.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Richard Joel Kittinger, December 28, 1974.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Montevallo, B.F.A., 1977.\u00a0 Co-owner of a fine crafts gallery in Alabaster, AL, 1977-78; freelance crafts designer, 1978-91; freelance author of children&#8217;s books after 1991.\u00a0 Wrote for magazines and newspapers.\u00a0 Member, Society of Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators; Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society; Alabama Writer&#8217;s Forum. \u00a0 Member Board of Directors, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Health Care Authority of Jefferson County. Received a Crystal Kite Award and a Christopher Award in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors; Something about the Author.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birds of North America:\u00a0 East.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 DK Publishing, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Birds of North America: West.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 DK Publishing, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Dead Log Alive!\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Franklin Watts, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the Beach.\u00a0 Danbury, CT: Children&#8217;s Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The House on Dirty-Third Street.\u00a0 Peachtree Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Joy of Cats.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>A Look at Minerals:\u00a0 From Galena to Gold.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Franklin Watts, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>A Look at Rocks: From Coal to Kimberlife.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Franklin Watts, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch with Punch.\u00a0 Danbury, CT:\u00a0 Children&#8217;s Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Moving Day.\u00a0 Danbury: Children&#8217;s Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa&#8217;s Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights.\u00a0 Calkins Creek, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Stories in\u00a0 Stone:\u00a0 The World of Animal Fossils.<\/p>\n<p>When I Grow Up.\u00a0 Danbury, CT: Children&#8217;s Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Who is George Washington Carver?\u00a0 Children&#8217;s Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Jane Goodall?\u00a0 Children&#8217;s Press, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer of children&#8217;s books; journalist; potter; craftsperson.\u00a0 Born&#8211; October 8, 1955, Miami, Florida.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; Donald and Vivian Susenbach.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Richard Joel Kittinger, December 28, 1974.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Montevallo, B.F.A., 1977.\u00a0 Co-owner of a fine crafts gallery in Alabaster, AL, 1977-78; freelance crafts designer, 1978-91; freelance author of children&#8217;s books after 1991.\u00a0 Wrote [&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-5940","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\/5940","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=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8661,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}