Writer; professor of journalism and creative writing.\u00a0 Born–September 28, 1936, Montgomery.\u00a0 Parents–Julius Porter and Emily (Hillman) Paterson. Married– Charles William Jones.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 Hollins College, Roanoke, Va., 1958; Auburn University, M.A., 1972; Ph. D., 1975. Taught at Auburn University at Montgomery, 1972-1981; at the School of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1984-2005; creative writing instructor at CALL–“Career, Certificates, and Life Planning”–at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\u00a0 Wrote and produced “The Writer’s Tale,” a program of interviews with writers, 2001-2005, at the University of Maryland.\u00a0 Free-lance writer; published many articles and essays.<\/p>\n
Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n Encyclopedia of Alabama<\/p>\n Sweet Mystery.<\/p>\n Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n Be Somebody:\u00a0 A Biography of Marguerite Rewalt. 1986.<\/p>\n Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa:\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 1996.<\/p>\n Thomas More.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Twayne, 1979.<\/p>\n Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n Philip Roth.\u00a0 New York: Ungar, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writer; professor of journalism and creative writing.\u00a0 Born–September 28, 1936, Montgomery.\u00a0 Parents–Julius Porter and Emily (Hillman) Paterson. Married– Charles William Jones.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 Hollins College, Roanoke, Va., 1958; Auburn University, M.A., 1972; Ph. D., 1975. Taught at Auburn University at Montgomery, 1972-1981; at the School of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1984-2005; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","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=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}