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Anne Rivers Siddons

(1936 - 2019)

Anne Rivers Siddons was born in a small railroad town just south of Atlanta, where her family had lived for six generations. She attended Auburn University and later joined the staff of Atlanta magazine. Her first novel, Heartbreak Hotel, a story of her college days at Auburn, was later made into a movie called Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy.

Genres: Romance, Horror

Novels

   Heartbreak Hotel (1976)
   The House Next Door (1978)
   Fox's Earth (1981)
   Homeplace (1987)
   Peachtree Road (1989)
   Kings Oak (1990)
   Outer Banks (1991)
   Colony (1992)
   Hill Towns (1993)
   Downtown (1994)
   Fault Lines (1995)
   Up Island (1997)
   Low Country (1998)
   Nora, Nora (2000)
   Islands (2004)
   Sweetwater Creek (2005)
   Off Season (2008)
   Burnt Mountain (2011)
   The Girls of August (2014)

Plays

Rapunzel (2006)

Non fiction

John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975)
Go Straight on Peachtree (1978)

Omnibus editions

   Trilogy of Romances (2004) (with Eileen Goudge and Judith Gould)
   Islands / Low Country (2004)
   Low Country / Up Island (2006)

Anne Rivers Siddons recommends

So Happy Together (2009)
Maryann McFadden
"The characters in So Happy Together will speak to you, and the best ones... all have the ocean in their voices."

Bound South (2009)
Susan Rebecca White
"Susan Rebecca White has perfect pitch and a wicked pen."

Good Grief (2004)
Lolly Winston
"Good Grief is one of the best first novels I have ever read, and anyone who thinks there is nothing new to read about loss, pain, love, humor and ultimate renewal, should grab this book now."

Mina (2004)
Jonatha Ceely
"Jonatha Ceely has caught perfectly the beauty, cruelty, and the very essence of one England about to transmute into another. A lovely book."

Skyward (2003)
Mary Alice Monroe
"A soaring, passionate story of lonliness and pain and the simple ability of love to heal and trancend both. Mary Alice Monroe's voice is as strong and true as the great birds of prey of whom she writes."

The Sunday Wife (2002)
Cassandra King
"A wonderful book..."