![]() ![]() Burns died of heart failure in 1990, at age 65, in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, before finishing the manuscript, and the uncompleted novel was published in 1992 along with her notes. The first white-authored southern novel I read when my family moved from Michigan to Tennessee was Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree. Burns received so many letters pleading for a follow-up novel that she began writing Leaving Cold Sassy. The novel was finally published eight years after it was begun, in 1984. In 1975 she was diagnosed with lymphoma and began to change the family stories into a novel that would later become Cold Sassy Tree. Burns worked for the Atlanta Journal and wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Larkin". Her sophomore year she transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism. The Burns family then moved to Commerce, Georgia. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Her father was a farmer but was forced to sell his farm in 1931 during the Great Depression.īurns attended Mercer University, where she wrote for the college magazine. Olive Ann Burns was born in Banks County, Georgia. Olive Ann Burns was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984. ![]()
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