{"id":6319,"date":"2017-01-27T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T21:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:22:40","slug":"buffett-jimmy-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6319","title":{"rendered":"BUFFETT, JIMMY, 1946-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singer; songwriter; businessman; author.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Pascagoula, MS, December 25, 1946.\u00a0 Grew up in Mobile. \u00a0Parents&#8211; James Delaney and Lorraine Peets Buffett.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Margie Washichek, 1969; Jane Slagsvol, August 27, 1977.\u00a0 Children-two. Education&#8211;McGill Institute, Mobile; Auburn University; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1969.\u00a0 Writer for <em>Billboard,<\/em> Nashville, 1971-73.\u00a0 Moved to Key West in 1973; worked as First Mate on a yacht while he began his career as a singer\u00a0performing locally; became successful as a recording artist and touring performer.\u00a0Has released over 30 albums,many platinum or gold.\u00a0Author of several books; one of\u00a0only a few authors to place both fiction and nonfiction books on the New York Times best seller list.\u00a0Founded two restaurant chains, Margaritaville Caf\u00e9 and Cheeseburger from Paradise. \u00a0Member Greenpeace Foundation, Cousteau Society, Save the Manatee Commission. Awarded the honorary Doctorate of Music\u00a0 by the University of Miami in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary authors online; wikipedia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daybreak on the Equator.\u00a0 Random House, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Parrot Head Handbook.\u00a0 Universal City CA:\u00a0 MCI, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>A Pirate Looks at Fifty.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Random House, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>A Salty Piece of Land.\u00a0 NY: Little, Brown, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Swine Not? NY:Little, Brown, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Tales from Magaritaville.\u00a0 San Diego:\u00a0 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Where is Joe Merchant? New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jolly Mon.\u00a0 San Diego:\u00a0 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble Dolls. San Diego:\u00a0 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Singer; songwriter; businessman; author.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Pascagoula, MS, December 25, 1946.\u00a0 Grew up in Mobile. \u00a0Parents&#8211; James Delaney and Lorraine Peets Buffett.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Margie Washichek, 1969; Jane Slagsvol, August 27, 1977.\u00a0 Children-two. Education&#8211;McGill Institute, Mobile; Auburn University; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1969.\u00a0 Writer for Billboard, Nashville, 1971-73.\u00a0 Moved to Key West in 1973; worked as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","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=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}