{"id":661,"date":"2012-11-20T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=661"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:13:08","slug":"alexander-paul-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"ALEXANDER, PAUL, 1955-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer, playwright, stage director.  Born&#8211;  1955, Birmingham.  Education&#8211;  University of  Alabama, B.A.,  1977; University of Iowa, Writer&#8217;s Workshop, M.F.A., 1979. Reporter for <em>Time <\/em>Houston Bureau, 1979-81. Published articles in many journals; closely associated with <em>George <\/em>and frequently published in <em>Rolling Stone. <\/em>Fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford, 2002.\u00a0 Co-host of &#8220;Batchelder and Alexander&#8221; radio show, 2001-2003.\u00a0Honors&#8211;  Recipient Academy of American Poets award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Literature in Birmingham; Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blue Rooms.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  Elm Street Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Boulevard of Broken Dreams; The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean.\u00a0 New York; Viking Press, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The Candidate; Behind John Kerry&#8217;s Remarkable Run for the White House.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Riverhead Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Death and Disaster; The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy&#8217;s Millions.New York; Villard Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Machiavelli&#8217;s Shadow; The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove.\u00a0 New York; Modern Times, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Man of the People;\u00a0 The Life of John McCain.\u00a0 Hoboken, NJ; John Wiley and Sons, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Rough Magic; A Biography of Sylvia Plath. New York; Viking, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Salinger; A Biography.\u00a0 Los Angeles; Renaissance Books, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Strangers.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ariel Ascending; Writings about Sylvia Plath.  New York;  Harper &amp; Row, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer, playwright, stage director. Born&#8211; 1955, Birmingham. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1977; University of Iowa, Writer&#8217;s Workshop, M.F.A., 1979. Reporter for Time Houston Bureau, 1979-81. Published articles in many journals; closely associated with George and frequently published in Rolling Stone. Fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford, 2002.\u00a0 Co-host of &#8220;Batchelder and Alexander&#8221; [&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-661","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\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}