{"id":742,"date":"2014-07-09T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=742"},"modified":"2016-12-06T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:57:11","slug":"baughman-dorothy-james-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"BAUGHMAN, DOROTHY, 1940-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technical worker; Writer. Born&#8211; July 13, 1940, Prattville. Parents&#8211; Charles Ross and Thelma (Cooper) McCartney. Married&#8211; James Baughman, April 22, 1960. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Attended high school in Elmore County. Employed as telephone switchboard operator in Montgomery, 1959-61; cardiogram technician at Elmore County Hospital, 1968-73; and after 1973, free-lance writer. Published articles in various journals and magazines. Member of the Eclectic City Council, the Eclectic Community Council and the Creative Writers Club in Montgomery. Honors; Won prizes in the Alabama Pen Women and Press and Author Club contests before her first book was published.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Women in Public Office, 1978; and the jacket of Piney&#8217;s Summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Baughman Collection.\u00a0 CreateSpace, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost of Aronov Point. New York; Avalon Books, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Icy Terror. New York; Avalon Books, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Piney&#8217;s Summer. New York; Coward McCann, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Secret of Montoya Mission. New York; Avalon Books, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Secret of Stagecoach Inn.\u00a0 Dynasty Group, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Wishes, Secret Fears. New York; Avalon Books, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Technical worker; Writer. Born&#8211; July 13, 1940, Prattville. Parents&#8211; Charles Ross and Thelma (Cooper) McCartney. Married&#8211; James Baughman, April 22, 1960. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Attended high school in Elmore County. Employed as telephone switchboard operator in Montgomery, 1959-61; cardiogram technician at Elmore County Hospital, 1968-73; and after 1973, free-lance writer. Published articles in various [&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-742","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\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}