{"id":972,"date":"2024-02-28T02:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/?page_id=972"},"modified":"2024-02-28T02:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:34:35","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thomas Corwin<\/strong> was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1942. He graduated from Tulane University on a Navy scholarship and spent five years on active duty teaching physics at the Naval Nuclear Power School. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from Georgia Tech, he taught Physics and Astronomy at UNC Charlotte for almost 40 years, retiring in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After retiring, Thomas began writing fiction and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University. In November 2020, his thesis, <em>Tallapoosa: A Southern Novel<\/em>, was published by SFK Publishing. His second book of fiction, <em>The Art of Dying and other stories<\/em>, has been published as well. In total, Thomas has published eleven books. Recently, he has taken up oil painting, and some of his work can be seen on mikecorwinart.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Corwin was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1942. He graduated from Tulane University on a Navy scholarship and spent five years on active duty teaching physics at the Naval Nuclear Power School. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from Georgia Tech, he taught Physics and Astronomy at UNC Charlotte for almost 40 years, retiring &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-972","page","type-page","status-publish","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/856051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}