Biography:

Socialite.  Born April 14, 1879,  Decatur, Alabama. Parents  J. Monroe Hinds (former Ambassador to Brazil) and Lucia Anita Trillia Hinds.  Married (1) Alfred Duggan , May 1, 1902 (died 1915). Three children. Married (2) Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, February 2, 1917.  (Curzon, an influential British politician and former Viceroy of India, served as Foreign Secretary, 1919-1924; died 1925). As Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, a leading figure in British society;  the first woman to be awarded the Grand Cross of the British Empire, 1922, for her work in support of the British Red Cross and Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Association in World War I. Died June 25, 1958.

Sources:

Obituary, New York Times, 1958.

Encyclopedia Brittanica, 15th edition.

Pearson, Hesketh. Marrying Americans. New York; Coward McCann, 1961.  Pp. 116-127.

Owen’s History of Alabama, Vol. 3 (entry for J. Monroe Hinds).

Publication:

Reminiscences.  New York:  Coward-McCann, 1955.

Biography:

Anthropologist; professor of anthropology. Born– November 7, 1944, Birmingham. Parents– Henry M. and Zoe (Martin) Godschalk. Married– Dennis Ahern, May 11, 1966. Education– University of Michigan, B.A., 1966; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1971. Assistant professor of anthropology, Yale University, 1972-74; Johns Hopkins 1974-1994; Princeton, 1994-2001; currently a professor of socio-anthropology at New York University. Founding editor of the journal Anthropology Now. Author of many professional articles and presentations; member of the American Anthropological Association, the American Ethnological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Association for Feminist Anthropology.  Winner of the 2009 Diana Forsythe Prize for the best book of feminist anthropology, for Bipolar Expeditions.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; NYU website.

Publication(s);

Bipolar Expeditions:  Mania and depression in American Culture.  Princeton University Press, 2007.

Chinese Ritual and Politics. New York; Cambridge University Press, 1981. {Books written before 1984 were  published under the name “Ahern, Emily Martin.”}

The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1973.

Flexible Bodies; Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS.  Boston; Beacon Press, 1994.

Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1974.

The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1987.

Women in the Chinese Society. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1975.

Contributor;

Imagining Illness;  Public Health and Visual Culture.  University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Studies in Chinese Society. Stanford, 1978.

Editor:

The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1981.

Teacher; writer.  Born–Montgomery.  Education– Vassar College, B.A., 2000;  Duke University, MAT; graduate work in folklore and creative writing at the University of North Carolina.  English teacher at Spain Park High School, Birmingham, 2007-  .  Owner and operator of Lady Muleskinner Press, 2009-  .  Host of “The Lost Child” radio program on Birmingham roots music.  Author of journal articles and pamphlets on Birmingham music.

Joint_Publications;

Doc:  The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man.  University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Biography;
Writer; professor of English. Born June 22, 1916, Miami; moved to Montgomery at an early age. Parents– Elmer and Louise Brown Norris. Children–one. Education;  University of Alabama, B.A., 1938; M.A., 1940; additional graduate work at Duke University and the University of Alabama, where she was a student of Hudson Strode.  Assistant Professor of English at Huntingdon College, 1966-79; freelance writer after 1979.  Received the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year, 2000.  Elected to Alabama Authors Hall of Fame in inaugural class, 2015. Winner of many literary awards, including a Pushcart Prize, two Andrew Lytle Awards, and five O’Henry Awards.  Poet Laureate of Alabama, 1999-2013. Died November 18, 2013.

Source:

Obituary

Publications;

The Burning Glass. LSU Press, 1992.

The Christmas Wife: Stories. University of Illinois Press, 1985.

For the Glory of God, Macmillan, 1958.

More than Seven Watchmen.  Zondervan, 1985.

One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser.  University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Rain Pulse.  Timberline Press, 1997.

Something More than Earth. Little, Brown,  1940.

Walk with the Sickle Moon.  Birch Lane Press, 1985.

Water into Wine. University of Illinois Press,  1988.

Whatever Is Round.  Curbow Publications, 1994.

Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor. Born– September 11, 1940, Birmingham. Parents– John and Nell (Marshall) Reid. Married– George Broughton;  Children– One; married John Irwin Fischer, Nov. 29, 1976; children–one. Education– Randolph Macon College, 1958-1959; University of Alabama, B.A., 1962, M.A., 1963; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1971. Taught English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1967-1975; taught English at Louisiana State University. 1975-2000. Published many articles in scholarly journals. Member Phi Beta Kappa and professional organizations. Professor emerita, 2001.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Art and Affection; A Life of Virginia Woolf.  Oxford University Press, 1996.

The Art of Walker Percy. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Guide to Teaching Literature. Glenview, Ill.; Scott, Foresman, 1979.

Tillie Olsen; One Woman, Many Riddles.  Rutgers University Press, 2010.

William Faulkner; the Abstract and the Actual. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1974.

Editor and contributor;

Conversations with Ellen Douglas.  University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Biography;
Writer. Born–Buenos Aires, Argentina. Moved to Marion, Alabama, 1961. Married–Paul Weaver. Education–B.A., University of Alabama.
Received the 2013 Druid Arts Award from the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa; Darkroom was named one of the Notable Books for a Global Society in 2013 by the International Reading Association.

Sources:

University of Alabama Press website.

Publications;
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White. University of Alabama Press, 2012.