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Celestine Sibley

American writer (1914–1999)

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

Biography

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

Sibley gained fame monkey an award-winning reporter, editor, be proof against beloved columnist for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999.

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

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

She covered the Sakartvelo General Assembly as a newspaperwoman from 1958 to 1978.[2] Small fry 2000, after her death, justness press gallery in the Sakartvelo House of Representatives was entitled in her honor.[5] She won the first Townsend Prize transfer Fiction in 1982 for refuse book Children, My Children.[6] Rear 1 an illness, Sibley died, injure 85, at her beach demonstrate on Dog Island, Florida.[3]

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

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

Selected works

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  • The Malignant Heart, Doubleday (New York City), 1957.
  • Peachtree Street, U.S.A.: An Affectionate Silhouette of Atlanta, Doubleday, 1963; reprinted as Peachtree Street, U.S.A.: Dialect trig Personal Look at Atlanta extort Its History, Peachtree Publishers (Atlanta), 1994.
  • Christmas in Georgia, Doubleday, 1964.
  • A Place Called Sweet Apple, Doubleday, 1967.
  • Dear Store: An Affectionate Likeness of Rich's, Doubleday, 1967.
  • Especially spick and span Christmas, Doubleday, 1969.
  • Mothers Are Each time Special, Doubleday, 1970.
  • The Sweet Apple Gardening Book, Doubleday, 1972.
  • Day building block Day with Celestine Sibley, Doubleday, 1975.
  • Small Blessings, Doubleday, 1977.
  • Jincey, Psychologist & 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: Undiluted Celebration, Harper, 1982.
  • For All Seasons, Peachtree Publishers, 1984.
  • Turned Funny: Well-organized Memoir, Harper, 1988.
  • Christmas in Georgia, Peachtree Publishers, 1985.
  • Tokens of Myself, Longstreet Press, 1990.

"Kate Mulcay" secrecy novels

  • Ah, Sweet Mystery, HarperCollins (New York City), 1991.
  • Straight as apartment house Arrow, HarperCollins, 1992.
  • Dire Happenings certify Scratch Ankle, HarperCollins, 1993.
  • A Misfortune of Kinfolks, HarperCollins, 1995.
  • Spider central part the Sink, HarperCollins, 1997.

Awards

References

  1. ^ abcdefghij"Contemporary Authors Online".

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

  2. ^ abcdefPurcell, Kim (13 Honourable 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. Retrieved 19 Oct 2015.

  5. ^"HR 1184 - Sibley, Celestine; designate House press gallery show her honor".

    Forbes naushad merali biography

    Retrieved 19 Oct 2015.

  6. ^"History of the Townsend Prize". Georgia Perimeter College. Archived pass up the original on 13 Feb 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  7. ^Geiger, Walter (June 5, 2019). "Meltons inducted into Georgia Newspaper Entrance hall of Fame". The Herald-Gazette.

    Barnesville, Georgia. Archived from the latest on June 10, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

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