Journalist; writer.\u00a0 Born– September 16, 1903, Marion, S.C. Parents– Louis Judson and Caroline Cornelia Winkler Bristow.\u00a0Lived in Selma during her childhood and youth. \u00a0Married– Bruce Manning, June 14, 1929.\u00a0 Education–Judson College, B.A., 1924; Columbia University School of Journalism.\u00a0 Reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1925-34; afterwards a free-lance writer.\u00a0 Lived in New York, Connecticut, and Hollywood.\u00a0 Member Authors’ League of American; PEN International (international corresponding secretary). Several of her novels were Literary Guild selections. Elected to Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, 1989. Died August 16, 1980.<\/p>\n
Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n Contemporary authors online; Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame website; obituary<\/p>\n Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n The Alien and Other Poems.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Badger, 1926.<\/p>\n Calico Palace.\u00a0 Crowell, 1970.<\/p>\n Celia Garth.\u00a0 New York: Crowell, 1959.<\/p>\n Deep Summer.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Crowell, 1937.<\/p>\n Golden Dreams.\u00a0 Crowell, 1980.<\/p>\n Gwen Bristow:\u00a0 A Self-Portrait.\u00a0 New York: Crowell, 1940.<\/p>\n Handsome Road.\u00a0 New York: Crowell, 1938.<\/p>\n Jubilee Trail.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Crowell, 1920.<\/p>\n This Side of Glory.\u00a0 New York: Crowell, 1979.<\/p>\n Tomorrow Is Forever.\u00a0 New York: Crowell, 1943.<\/p>\n Joint_Publications; <\/strong><\/p>\n Gutenberg Murders.\u00a0 New York: Mystery League, 1931.<\/p>\n The Invisible Host.\u00a0 Mystery League, 1930.<\/p>\n Mardi Gras Murders.\u00a0 Mystery League, 1932.<\/p>\n The Ninth Guest.\u00a0 Popular Library, 1975.<\/p>\n Two and Two Make Twenty-two.\u00a0 Mystery League, 1932.<\/p>\n Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n Papers of Gwen Bristow are held by several libraries, including those at UCL, and LSU.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journalist; writer.\u00a0 Born– September 16, 1903, Marion, S.C. Parents– Louis Judson and Caroline Cornelia Winkler Bristow.\u00a0Lived in Selma during her childhood and youth. \u00a0Married– Bruce Manning, June 14, 1929.\u00a0 Education–Judson College, B.A., 1924; Columbia University School of Journalism.\u00a0 Reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1925-34; afterwards a free-lance writer.\u00a0 Lived in New York, Connecticut, and […]<\/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-6777","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\/6777","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=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}