Alexandra Ripley
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(1934-2004)
| 1991 | Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The estate of Margaret Mitchell selected romance writer Ripley to produce the long-anticipated sequel, which Mitchell had refused to write. The continuing adventures of Scarlett O'Hara in Georgia and Ireland sell nearly 2.5 million copies from September 25 to the end of the year, becoming the fastest-selling novel in history. |
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Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind. Her first novel was Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (1972). Charleston (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books On Leaving Charleston (1984), The Time Returns (1985), and New Orleans Legacy (1987). Scarlett "was universally panned by critics," but was very successful nonetheless. She attended the elite Ashley Hall, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
She died in Richmond, Virginia, and is survived by two daughters from her first marriage to Leonard Ripley, a son in law and granddaughter, Alexandra Elizabeth.
Novels
- 1972: Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (as B.K. Ripley)
- 1981: Charleston
- 1984: On Leaving Charleston
- 1985: The Time Returns
- 1987: New Orleans Legacy
- 1991: Scarlett
- 1994: From Fields of Gold
- 1997: A Love Divine
Non-Fiction
- 1974: Caril (as B.K. Ripley, with Nanette Beaver & Patrick Trese)
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