{"id":973,"date":"2016-06-17T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=973"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:29:57","slug":"childress-mark-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"CHILDRESS, MARK, 1957-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; writer.. Born&#8211; September 21, 1957, Monroeville. Parents&#8211; Roy and Mary Helen (Gillion) Childress. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1978. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1977-80; feature editor for Southern Living, 1980-84; regional editor for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 1984-85. Book of the Year Selection for Crazy in Alabama; Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Alabama, ; Writer of the Year, Alabama Library Association, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anniston Star, November 25, 1984 and Mark Childress, Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crazy in Alabama. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Bottoms. New York:\u00a0 Little, Brown, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Bobbity Is Missing and It&#8217;s All Billy Bobbity&#8217;s Fault! Birmingham:\u00a0 Crane Hill Publishers, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Bigtooth. Boston; Little, Brown, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs. Boston:\u00a0 Little, Brown, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>One Mississippi.\u00a0 New York: Little, Brown, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Tender. New York; Harmony Books, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>V for Victor. New York; Knopf, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>World Made of Fire. New York:\u00a0 Knopf, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Home to Jericho. Birmingham, Ala.; Oxmoor House, 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; writer.. Born&#8211; September 21, 1957, Monroeville. Parents&#8211; Roy and Mary Helen (Gillion) Childress. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.A., 1978. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1977-80; feature editor for Southern Living, 1980-84; regional editor for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 1984-85. Book of the Year Selection for Crazy in Alabama; Distinguished Alumni Award, University [&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-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}