{"id":771,"date":"2016-11-17T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=771"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:20:16","slug":"berney-william-claiborne-1920-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"BERNEY, WILLIAM CLAIBORNE, 1920-1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dramatist. Born&#8211; May 6, 1920, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William and Louise (Claiborne) Berney. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; University of Iowa, M.A. in drama. Collaborated with Howard Richardson\u00a0on a\u00a0thesis in the form of a drama. \u00a0After graduation the thesis was produced and ran for nine months on Broadway in 1944 as &#8220;Dark of the Moon.&#8221; He and Richardson collaborated in writing other plays. At the time of his death\u00a0 he was working as a script writer in Hollywood, Calif. Died November 23, 1961.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical sketch by Robert Finney in the files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Masque of Night; a Poetic Interlude. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dark of the Moon; a Play in Nine Scenes. S.l.; s.n., 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Design for a Stained Glass Window; a Play in Three Acts. Boston; Baker, 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Protective Custody; a Play in Three Acts. New York; Hart Pub. Co., s.d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Dramatist. Born&#8211; May 6, 1920, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William and Louise (Claiborne) Berney. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; University of Iowa, M.A. in drama. Collaborated with Howard Richardson\u00a0on a\u00a0thesis in the form of a drama. \u00a0After graduation the thesis was produced and ran for nine months on Broadway in 1944 as &#8220;Dark of the [&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-771","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\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}