{"id":651,"date":"2012-09-19T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T19:55:36","slug":"akens-helen-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"AKENS, HELEN MORGAN, 1918-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; College instructor. Born&#8211; Sunny South, Ala., August 6, 1918.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James Martin and Katherine Morgan. Married&#8211; David Strode Akens, August 21, 1953. Education&#8211; University of Montevallo, A.B.; University of Alabama, M.A., 1956; attended American University in Washington, D.C. Taught at Huntingdon College, Athens College and the University of Montevallo; served as Dean of Women at Athens College.\u00a0With her husband founded Strode Publishers. Wrote a regular column for the Clarke County Democrat and for the Mobile Press Register. One short story appeared in Alabama Prize Stories, 1970. Died June 9, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3; Obituary,\u00a0Huntsville Times, June 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama, Mounds to Missiles. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1962.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Heritage. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer; College instructor. Born&#8211; Sunny South, Ala., August 6, 1918.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James Martin and Katherine Morgan. Married&#8211; David Strode Akens, August 21, 1953. Education&#8211; University of Montevallo, A.B.; University of Alabama, M.A., 1956; attended American University in Washington, D.C. Taught at Huntingdon College, Athens College and the University of Montevallo; served as Dean of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","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\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}