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Kathryn Tucker Windham : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kathryn Tucker Windham
Kathryn Tucker Windham (June 2, 1918 – June 12, 2011) was an American storyteller, author, photographer, folklorist, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama and grew up in nearby Thomasville. Windham got her first writing job at the age of 12, reviewing movies for her cousin's small town newspaper, ''The Thomasville Times''. She earned a B.A. degree from Huntingdon College in 1939. Soon after graduating she became the first woman journalist for the ''Alabama Journal''. Starting in 1944, she worked for ''The Birmingham News''. In 1946 she married Amasa Benjamin Windham with whom she had three children. In 1956 she went to work at the ''Selma Times-Journal'' where she won several Associated Press awards for her writing and photography. She died on June 12, 2011.〔〔 ==Ghost stories== Kathryn Tucker Windham wrote a series of books of "true" ghost stories, based on local folklore, beginning with ''13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey'' (1969). Other titles were ''Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts'' (1971), ''13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey'' (1973), ''13 Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey'' (1974), ''13 Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey'' (1976), and ''Jeffrey's Latest 13: More Alabama Ghosts'' (1982). In 2004, she wrote ''Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories'', which was a collection of featured stories from the previous books.
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