{"id":789,"date":"2011-11-15T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=789"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:50:25","slug":"blackwell-annie-louise-1919-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"BLACKWELL, ANNIE LOUISE, 1919-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor of English. Born&#8211; May 7, 1919, Benmore, Miss. Education&#8211; Twentieth Century Business College, 1937-39; University of Houston, B.A., 1951; Florida State University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1966.\u00a0U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-45\u00a0(awarded the Bronze Star).\u00a0\u00a0Worked as a secretary, 1939-43 and 1946-48; \u00a0Education director at Camp Cherryfield, Brevard, N.C., 1956-62; staff director of the Knoxville Area Human Relations Council, 1961-62. Instructor\u00a0in creative writing at Watkins Institute, 1959-60.;\u00a0 associate professor of English at Florida A &amp; M University, 1966-77. Fulbright lecturer in American literature at the University of Sao Paulo, 1972-73.\u00a0\u00a0 Contributed articles and short stories to literary journals. Appointed to Florida Governor&#8217;s Commission on the Status of Women, 1967-69; member of the National Council on the Humanities, 1971-76.\u00a0 Member of the Modern Language Association, the College English Association, Society for the Study of\u00a0 Southern Literature, Authors Guild, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.\u00a0 Died December 25, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors Online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Men Around Hurley. New York; Vanguard, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lillian Smith. New York; Twayne, 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor of English. Born&#8211; May 7, 1919, Benmore, Miss. Education&#8211; Twentieth Century Business College, 1937-39; University of Houston, B.A., 1951; Florida State University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1966.\u00a0U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-45\u00a0(awarded the Bronze Star).\u00a0\u00a0Worked as a secretary, 1939-43 and 1946-48; \u00a0Education director at Camp Cherryfield, Brevard, N.C., 1956-62; staff director of the Knoxville [&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-789","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\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}