{"id":12,"date":"2023-11-20T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2023-11-20T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T07:16:08","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike 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 receiving 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<p>After retiring, the author began writing fiction and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University. In November 2020, his thesis, <strong>Tallapoosa: A Southern Novel<\/strong>, was published by SFK Publishing. His second book of fiction, <strong>The Art of Dying <\/strong>and other stories. The author have published 11 books all together. He has recently begun oil painting. Some of his work can be seen on mikecorwinart.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike 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 receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Georgia Tech, he taught Physics and Astronomy at UNC Charlotte for almost 40 years, retiring in<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About The Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/US\/856079\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}