Virginia Bradford Greer was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 30, 1919. Her family later moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where Greer was raised and married. She and her husband moved to Mobile, Alabama, in the summer of 1937 and in 1952 she took a correspondence course from the Newspaper Institute of America and began short stories and poems to magazines. She worked off and on for the Mobile Press Register from 1954 into the 1980s. In 1962 Greer interviewed Alice Frazer, the last witness to Mobile's 1897 Yellow Fever epidemic. Greer's Press Register stories won several awards, including the "Alma" from the American Home Laundry Association four outstanding journalism. Greer was a member of the Mobile branch of Pen Women and the Toastmistress Club. She is also the author of four books: Give Them Their Dignity (1968) recounts the year that Greer spent teaching youth in a local church; The Glory Woods: A Hymn of Healing (1976), chronicles her personal battle with cancer; Emergency: The True Story of a Woman's Faith and Service as an Emergency Room Volunteer (1977) is also drawn from her personal experiences; and her final book, Mobile, Talk About Town! (1985), discusses some of Mobile's most memorable social and literary characters. Her articles have appeared in such periodicals as Woman's Life, Your Life, Success Unlimited, Modern Maturity, Home Life, Church Recreation, and, under the pseudonyms Lee Bradford and Lee Hamilton, in the True Police Cases. Greer died in California in 2008.
From the description of Papers, 1942-1997 bulk 1960-1968. (University of South Alabama). WorldCat record id: 162149947
