- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Anne Rivers Siddons (1936-2019)
- Creator:
- York, Lamar
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-18
- Subject:
- Siddons, Anne Rivers
Authors, American--South Carolina--Charleston
Women authors, American--South Carolina--Charleston
Novelists, American--South Carolina--Charleston
Women novelists, American--South Carolina--Charleston - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Anne Rivers Siddons. Though all of her eighteen books have been set in Georgia or concern southerners living elsewhere, Anne Rivers Siddons is best known for books about Atlanta and its environs. Two novels, Homeplace (1987) and Nora, Nora (2000), take place in a fictionalized version of Fairburn, her hometown, in Fulton County. She is also the author of two books of nonfiction, Go Straight on Peachtree (1978), a McDonald City Guide to Atlanta, and John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), a series of essays patterned around the changing seasons in Atlanta. Most important, her novel Downtown (1994) recreates her early career as a writer and editor for Atlanta magazine. Her most commercially successful book, Peachtree Road (1989), portrays modern Atlanta's white elite on the eve of the civil rights era.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/anne-rivers-siddons-1936-2019/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Anne Rivers Siddons (b. 1936)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
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Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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