{"id":695,"date":"2013-12-17T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=695"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:05:02","slug":"ayers-harry-brandt-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"AYERS, HARRY BRANDT, 1935-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, publisher. Born&#8211; April 8, 1935, Anniston. Parents&#8211; Harry Mell and Edel (Ytterboe) Ayers. Married&#8211; Josephine Peoples Ehringhaus, December 9, 1961. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1959; attended Harvard University \u00a0as a Nieman Fellow,\u00a0 1967-1968. Reporter for the Raleigh (N.C.) Times, 1960-1962; Washington correspondent for the Timmons Agency, 1962-1964; editor and publisher of the Anniston Star, 1968-2017; Chair, Consolidated Publications Co., 1998.\u00a0 Commentator, NPR &#8220;Morning Edition.&#8221;\u00a0 Member of\u00a0the Council on Foreign Relations, the\u00a0Board of the Southern Center for International Studies, and the International Fulbright Board. Founder and president of the L.O.C. Lamar Society. Received the Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1977; elected to the Alabama Academy of Honor, 1991; to the University of Alabama Communications Hall of Fame,2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1973-1974; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Love with Defeat: The Making of a Southern Liberal.\u00a0 Montgomery: New South Books, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You Can&#8217;t Eat Magnolias. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Bicentennial Portrait of the American People. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Mystique. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Editor, publisher. Born&#8211; April 8, 1935, Anniston. Parents&#8211; Harry Mell and Edel (Ytterboe) Ayers. Married&#8211; Josephine Peoples Ehringhaus, December 9, 1961. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1959; attended Harvard University \u00a0as a Nieman Fellow,\u00a0 1967-1968. Reporter for the Raleigh (N.C.) Times, 1960-1962; Washington correspondent for the Timmons Agency, 1962-1964; editor and publisher [&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-695","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\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}