{"id":972,"date":"2013-09-24T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=972"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:43:42","slug":"childers-james-saxon-1899-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"CHILDERS, JAMES SAXON, 1899-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

University professor, author,\u00a0newspaper editor. Born– April 19, 1899, Birmingham. Parents– Hayden Prior and Pattie Undine (Goldwire) Childers. Married– Maurine White. Education– Oberlin College, B.A., 1920; Oxford University, B.A., 1923; M.A., 1927. Military service: Naval Aviation, WWI; U.S.Air Force Intelligence, WWII; retired with rank of colonel. Professor of literature at Birmingham Southern College, 1925-1942; associate editor, Atlanta Journal, 1951-1957; lecturer, U.S. Department of State in the Far and Middle East, 1958-1959;\u00a0 president of Tupper and Love, Inc., book publishers, after 1959. Honors– Rhodes Scholarship, 1921; Oglethorpe University, Litt.D., 1954; Birmingham Southern College, Litt.D., 1955. World traveller and distinguished collector of rare books.\u00a0 Died July 17, 1965.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marquis Who’s Who online; \u00a0Alabama Librarian, vol. 3.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Papers of James Saxon Childers are held at the Birmingham Public Library and in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bookshop Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1930.<\/p>\n

Enemy Outpost. New York; D. Appleton, 1942.<\/p>\n

Erskine Ramsay, His Life and Achievements. S.l.; Cartwright and Ewing, 1942.<\/p>\n

From Siam to Suez. New York; D. Appleton, 1923.<\/p>\n

God Save the Duke. New York; D. Appleton, 1933.<\/p>\n

Hilltop in the Rain. New York; D. Appleton, 1928.<\/p>\n

Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with Morals. S.l.; Nonesuch, 1925.<\/p>\n

In the Deep South. 1936.<\/p>\n

Laurel and Straw. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.<\/p>\n

The Lives and Works of the Uneducated Poets. Oxford University Press, 1925.<\/p>\n

Mumbo Jumbo, Esquire. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.<\/p>\n

The Nation on the Flying Trapeze; the United States as the People of the East See Us. New York; D. McKay, 1960.<\/p>\n

A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. New York; Farrar, 1936.<\/p>\n

Robert McAlpine, a Biography. New York; Oxford University Press, 1925.<\/p>\n

Sailing South American Skies. New York; Farrar, 1936.<\/p>\n

Through Oriental Gates. New York; D. Appleton, 1930.<\/p>\n

War Eagles, the Story of the Eagle Squadron. New York; D. Appleton, 1943.<\/p>\n

A Way Home; the Baptists Tell Their Story. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tomorrow We Reap.\u00a0 New York: Dial, 1949.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen to Leaders in Business. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.<\/p>\n

Listen to Leaders in Law. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.<\/p>\n

Listen to Leaders in Medicine. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.<\/p>\n

Listen to Leaders in Science. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: University professor, author,\u00a0newspaper editor. Born– April 19, 1899, Birmingham. Parents– Hayden Prior and Pattie Undine (Goldwire) Childers. Married– Maurine White. Education– Oberlin College, B.A., 1920; Oxford University, B.A., 1923; M.A., 1927. Military service: Naval Aviation, WWI; U.S.Air Force Intelligence, WWII; retired with rank of colonel. Professor of literature at Birmingham Southern College, 1925-1942; associate […]<\/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-972","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\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9147,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/9147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}