Peachtree Road, set in Atlanta, was a bestselling novel described as "the Southern novel for our generation" by Pat Conroy. Siddons' debut novel was Heartbreak Hotel (1976). The university administration attempted to suppress the column (when she refused to reconsider what she wrote, the piece ran with a disclaimer), and ultimately fired her, and the column garnered national attention.įollowing her college graduation, Siddons worked in advertising, but her desire to write led her to journalism, and in 1963 she became a writer for Atlanta magazine, where she eventually became a senior editor. While at Auburn she wrote a column for the student newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman, that favored integration. She was named Loveliest of the Plains and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. The only child of Marvin and Katherine Rivers, she was born in Atlanta, Georgia, was raised in Fairburn, Georgia, and attended Auburn University, where she majored in illustration after initially studying architecture. Anne Rivers Siddons (born Sybil Anne Rivers, Janu– September 11, 2019) was an American novelist who wrote stories set in the southern United States.
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