{"id":678,"date":"2013-06-10T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=678"},"modified":"2016-06-10T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:54:31","slug":"andersen-inez-elliott-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"ANDERSEN, INEZ ELLIOTT, 1899-1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; teacher. Born&#8211; March 19, 1899, Leeds. Parents&#8211; James Barnett Collier and Ida Vann Elliott. Married&#8211; Holger W. Andersen. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; George Peabody College, B.S., M.A., 1936. Public school teacher in Birmingham, 1918-1920, 1924-1933, and 1935-1937; assistant director of curriculum in Birmingham Public Schools, 1935-1937; taught at Arkansas State University; Pan American College. Co-founder of the Poetry Society of Tennessee and the first poet laureate of that organization. \u00a0Member of the World Poetry Society, the National League of Pen Women, the Tennessee Woman&#8217;s Press and Authors Club, the Alabama State Poetry Society and many other organizations. Honors&#8211; Winner of several honors and prizes including the grand prize of the Alabama Writers Conclave in 1978; named a colonel aide-de-camp to Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee in 1980. 1975 Poet of the Year, Alabama State Poetry Society. Died March 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International Who&#8217;s Who in Poetry, 4th ed. 1974-1975; Inez Elliott Andersen, Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And Now I Have Told You. Memphis, Tenn.; Riverside Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Never Send to Know. Kingsport, Tenn.; Author, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The Poetry Society of Tennessee, 1953-1969; a History. Memphis, Tenn.; Green Light Publications, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet; teacher. Born&#8211; March 19, 1899, Leeds. Parents&#8211; James Barnett Collier and Ida Vann Elliott. Married&#8211; Holger W. Andersen. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; George Peabody College, B.S., M.A., 1936. Public school teacher in Birmingham, 1918-1920, 1924-1933, and 1935-1937; assistant director of curriculum in Birmingham Public Schools, 1935-1937; taught at Arkansas State University; Pan American College. [&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-678","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\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}