{"id":671,"date":"2012-12-10T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=671"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:09:41","slug":"alston-edith-eugenia-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"ALSTON, EDITH EUGENIA, 1941-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, writer. Born&#8211; May 15, 1941, Anniston. Parents&#8211; James Robert Maxwell and Cornelia (Thompson) Alston. Education&#8211; St. Mary&#8217;s High School; junior college in Raleigh, N.C.; University of North Carolina, B.A. in English with honors in writing, 1963. Worked for the children&#8217;s book department at Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston, 1964-1965; Harper &amp; Row, 1965-1969; T.Y. Crowell, 1969-1970; Reader&#8217;s Digest Books, 1970-1973. Project editor for Oxmoor House in Birmingham for <em>Southern Antiques and Folk Art,<\/em>\u00a0 designated one of the 50 best art books in 1976 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Worked for the Anniston Star, 1977-1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edith Alston, Anniston, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come Visit a Prairie Dog Town. New York; Harcourt, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Room. New York; Harcourt, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Growing Up Chimpanzee. New York; T. Y. Crowell, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s Visit a Space Camp. Mahwah, N.Y.; Troll Associates, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Me and the Reluctant Robin.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Me-Too Books, 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Editor, writer. Born&#8211; May 15, 1941, Anniston. Parents&#8211; James Robert Maxwell and Cornelia (Thompson) Alston. Education&#8211; St. Mary&#8217;s High School; junior college in Raleigh, N.C.; University of North Carolina, B.A. in English with honors in writing, 1963. Worked for the children&#8217;s book department at Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston, 1964-1965; Harper &amp; Row, 1965-1969; T.Y. [&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-671","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\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}