- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Olive Ann Burns
- Contributor to Resource:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Date of Original:
- 1984
- Subject:
- Journalists--Georgia
Women journalists--Georgia
Cemeteries--Georgia
Sepulchral monuments--Georgia
Women--Georgia
Novelists, American--Georgia
Women novelists, American--Georgia
Authors, American--Georgia
Women authors, American--Georgia
Burns, Olive Ann - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Olive Ann Burns, a native of Banks County, began her writing career as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine in 1946. She is best known for her novel Cold Sassy Tree (1984), which is set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, and draws upon Burns's family history.
Photograph of Olive Ann Burns, a native of Banks County, Georgia, standing in a cemetery and leaning against a headstone. Burns began her writing career as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine in 1946. She is best known for her novel Cold Sassy Tree (1984), which is set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, and draws upon Burns's family history. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/olive-ann-burns-1924-1990/olive-ann-burns/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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