{"id":8974,"date":"2018-10-22T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:44:15","slug":"george-anne-carroll-1927-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8974","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE, ANNE CARROLL, 1927-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer, editor.\u00a0 Born:\u00a0 December 4, 1927, Calhoun.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Earl A. George.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 Judson College, B.A., 1949; aatended Samford University; \u00a0UAB, M.A., 19714; additional work at the University of Alabama.\u00a0\u00a0Worked as an English teacher in Birmingham and Jefferson County schools for twenty-three years; founded Druid Press, a small publishing house, in 1982.\u00a0 Published her first book in 1982; published short stories and poems in magazines and journals; wrote a series of mystery novels, the &#8220;Southern Sister Series.&#8221;Selected Alabama Poet of the Year, 1994; Agatha Award for Best First Mystery, 1997; Alabama State Poet; Alumna of the Year, Samford University, 1999; Book of the Year, Alabama State Poets Society, 2001. Died March 14, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; obituary, Birmingham News, March 15, 2001<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Map that Lies\u00a0 between Us: New and Collected Poems, 1980-2000.\u00a0 Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Boogies with Elvis.\u00a0 Morrow, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Carries a Torch.\u00a0 Morrow, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Gets a Life.\u00a0 Avon, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Makes Waves.\u00a0 Avon, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Murder on a Bad Hair Day.\u00a0 Avon, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Murder on a Girls&#8217; Night Out.\u00a0 New York;\u00a0 Avon, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Runs in the Family.\u00a0 Avon, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Murder Shoots the Bull.\u00a0 Morrow, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>This One and Magic Life:\u00a0 A Novel of a Southern Family.\u00a0 Avon, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Goose Chase.\u00a0 Druid Press, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Baker&#8217;s Dozen: Contemporary Women Poems of Alabama.\u00a0 Druid Press, 1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Anne George is held by the Special Collections Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer, editor.\u00a0 Born:\u00a0 December 4, 1927, Calhoun.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Earl A. George.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 Judson College, B.A., 1949; aatended Samford University; \u00a0UAB, M.A., 19714; additional work at the University of Alabama.\u00a0\u00a0Worked as an English teacher in Birmingham and Jefferson County schools for twenty-three years; founded Druid Press, a small publishing house, in 1982.\u00a0 Published her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","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=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}