{"id":787,"date":"2017-01-23T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:51:25","slug":"blackshear-helen-f-1911-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"BLACKSHEAR, HELEN FRIEDMAN, 1911-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social worker, teacher, poet. Born&#8211; June 5, 1911, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel and Annie Laurie Longshore Friedman. Married&#8211; William Blackshear, April 21, 1934. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Agnes Scott College, B.A., 1931; University of Alabama, M.A., 1932. Visitor for the Alabama Child Welfare Department in Montgomery, 1934-36; supervisor for the Tuscaloosa County Recreation Department, 1937-39; English teacher in Montgomery, 1942-45, 1956-73. Member of the Alabama State Poetry Society, Creative Writers of Montgomery, and Alabama Writers Conclave. Alabama State Poetry Society Poet of the Year, 1982. Poet Laureate Of Alabama, 1995-1999.\u00a0 Died November 11, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Album: Collected Poems.\u00a0 Black Belt Press, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Along Alabama Roads. Wells Printing, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The Creek Captives and Other Alabama Stories. Montgomery, Ala.; John M. Patterson Technical College, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery:\u00a0 Andrew Dexter&#8217;s Dream City.\u00a0 Montgomery, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Was a Rebel. Montgomery, Ala.; Adams Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Random Runes (Poems). Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Loveman; Belated Romanticist. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Songs. Montgomery: Court Street Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Smorgasbord.\u00a0 Wells Printing, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Tuscaloosa Sketches. Montgomery, Ala.; Parker Advertising Co., 1967.<\/p>\n<p>With a Quiet Eye.\u00a0 Montgomery, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These I Would Keep: Selected Poems by the Poets Laureate of Alabama.\u00a0 NewSouth Press, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Social worker, teacher, poet. Born&#8211; June 5, 1911, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel and Annie Laurie Longshore Friedman. Married&#8211; William Blackshear, April 21, 1934. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Agnes Scott College, B.A., 1931; University of Alabama, M.A., 1932. Visitor for the Alabama Child Welfare Department in Montgomery, 1934-36; supervisor for the Tuscaloosa County Recreation Department, 1937-39; [&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-787","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\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}