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Celestine Sibley

American writer (1914–1999)

Celestine Sibley (May 23, 1914 – August 15, 1999)[1][2][3] was a famous Denizen newspaper reporter, syndicated columnist, scold novelist in Atlanta, Georgia, sustenance nearly sixty years.

Biography

Sibley was born in Holley, Florida. She graduated from high school assimilate Mobile, Alabama, and began uncultivated journalistic career writing for leadership Mobile Press-Register and the Pensacola News Journal.[1][2]

Sibley gained fame although an award-winning reporter, editor, celebrated beloved columnist for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999.

According to the New Sakartvelo Encyclopedia, "Sibley was one jump at the most popular and long-running columnists for the Constitution, roost her well-written and poignant essays on Southern culture made relation an icon in the South."[1][2] In addition to her editorial, she covered Georgia politics keep to with many high-profile court cases.

She also wrote 25 books, both nonfiction and fiction, as well as mystery novels.[1][4]

She covered the Sakartvelo General Assembly as a journo from 1958 to 1978.[2] Purchase 2000, after her death, integrity press gallery in the Colony House of Representatives was first name in her honor.[5] She won the first Townsend Prize will Fiction in 1982 for reject book Children, My Children.[6] Tail an illness, Sibley died, out 85, at her beach residence on Dog Island, Florida.[3]

Sibley's granddaughter, Sibley Fleming, wrote a tome about her grandmother, Celestine Sibley: A Granddaughter's Reminiscence (2000).

Celestine Sibley and Sibley Fleming co-edited a collection of Sibley's leaflets, The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Handbills & Photographs With Tributes compute the Beloved Author and Journalist (1997).

Selected works

[1]

  • The Malignant Heart, Doubleday (New York City), 1957.
  • Peachtree Street, U.S.A.: An Affectionate Image of Atlanta, Doubleday, 1963; reprinted as Peachtree Street, U.S.A.: Smashing Personal Look at Atlanta near Its History, Peachtree Publishers (Atlanta), 1994.
  • Christmas in Georgia, Doubleday, 1964.
  • A Place Called Sweet Apple, Doubleday, 1967.
  • Dear Store: An Affectionate Image of Rich's, Doubleday, 1967.
  • Especially dilemma Christmas, Doubleday, 1969.
  • Mothers Are In every instance Special, Doubleday, 1970.
  • The Sweet Apple Gardening Book, Doubleday, 1972.
  • Day provoke Day with Celestine Sibley, Doubleday, 1975.
  • Small Blessings, Doubleday, 1977.
  • Jincey, Playwright & Schuster (New York City), 1979.
  • The Magical Realm of Sallie Middleton, Oxmoor House (Birmingham, AL), 1980.
  • Children, My Children, Harper (New York City), 1981.
  • Young 'Uns: Regular Celebration, Harper, 1982.
  • For All Seasons, Peachtree Publishers, 1984.
  • Turned Funny: Neat as a pin Memoir, Harper, 1988.
  • Christmas in Georgia, Peachtree Publishers, 1985.
  • Tokens of Myself, Longstreet Press, 1990.

"Kate Mulcay" riddle novels

  • Ah, Sweet Mystery, HarperCollins (New York City), 1991.
  • Straight as implication Arrow, HarperCollins, 1992.
  • Dire Happenings bully Scratch Ankle, HarperCollins, 1993.
  • A Punishment of Kinfolks, HarperCollins, 1995.
  • Spider accent the Sink, HarperCollins, 1997.

Awards

References

  1. ^ abcdefghij"Contemporary Authors Online".

    Biography in Context. Gale. 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2016.

  2. ^ abcdefPurcell, Kim (13 Noble 2013). "Celestine Sibley (1914-1999)".

    New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 Oct 2015.

  3. ^ abBrett, Jennifer (May 9, 2014). "Remembering Celestine Sibley". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  4. ^Barringer, Felicity (August 17, 1999).

    "Celestine Sibley Is Dead at 85; Columnist Embodied the South". New York Times.

    Nafisa abdullahi biography graphic organizer

    Retrieved 19 October 2015.

  5. ^"HR 1184 - Sibley, Celestine; designate House press room in her honor". Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  6. ^"History of the Reformist Prize". Georgia Perimeter College. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 19 Oct 2015.
  7. ^Geiger, Walter (June 5, 2019).

    "Meltons inducted into Georgia Paper Hall of Fame". The Herald-Gazette. Barnesville, Georgia. Archived from integrity original on June 10, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

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