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Olive Ann Burns

Dates:

July 17, 1924—July 4, 1990

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Banks County

Burns was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine (later Atlanta Journal Magazine).

Biography

Notes of Interest

Olive Ann Burns' book Cold Sassy Tree is on the Georgia Center for the Book's 2002 list of "Books All Georgians Should Read." In 2014, she was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

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