- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Berry Fleming (1899-1989)
- Creator:
- Rhodes, Don
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-11
- Subject:
- Fleming, Berry, 1899-
Authors, American--Georgia--Augusta
Novelists, American--Georgia--Augusta
Artists--Georgia--Augusta
Painters--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about author Berry Fleming. Publishers Weekly magazine once called Berry Fleming "the quintessential Southern writer; funny, wise and like the best of those from the South, an incredibly good storyteller." His long career began in 1927 with the publication of The Conqueror's Stone, an adventure story about a bloodthirsty pirate off the South Carolina coast. Fleming is best known for his novel Colonel Effingham's Raid, published in 1943. Among his other books are Siesta (1935), The Lightwood Tree (1947), The Fortune Tellers (1951), Carnival (1953), The Winter Rider (1960), Lucinderella (1967), The Acrobats (1969), The Make-Believers (1972), The Affair at Honey Hill (1981), and The Bookman's Tale and Others (1986).
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/berry-fleming-1899-1989/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Berry Fleming (1899-1989)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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