Susan Lindsley will be signing copies of Susan Myrick of Gone With The Wind: An Autobiographical Biography on Saturday, April 30, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library at North Jefferson Street in Milledgeville. Sue Myrick’s diaries and her letters to her close friend Margaret Mitchell reveal a Sue that few people knew. Sue also recorded inside information about the cast and crew of GWTW and other Hollywood notables. Myrick Memories, a series of stories about “the way it was” in Milledgeville and the South in the early 1900s, will also be available, as will Blue Jeans and Pantaloons in Yesterplace, which details life on an antebellum plantation in the 1940s. The Milledgeville Living in Retirement Writers Club will be Co-hosting the event with the Library. |
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SUSAN MYRICK of GONE WITH THE WIND: |
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| Sue’s life is told, from childhood to Hollywood, from high school teacher to award winning journalist, from early courtships to the death of her anticipated husband, Her story comes from her own words—her diary, her letters to Margaret Mitchell, her twice-weekly columns that reflected childhood and day to day life. Sue Myrick’s diaries and her letters to her close friend Margaret Mitchell reveal a Sue that few people knew. Sue also recorded inside information about the cast and crew of GWTW and other Hollywood notables. Illustrations include many photographs that Sue took on the sets of Gone With The Wind, and scores of Sue herself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MYRICK MEMORIES |
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Susan Myrick Allie Myrick Bowden Elizabeth Myrick Hubert Lillas Myrick Lindsley |
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Learn about life on Dovedale Plantation, read a Susan Myrick short story, learn why the Myrick girls of middle Georgia loved Sherman, ride from Minnesota to Daytona Beach with the youngest girl, and discover how to make your Victrola play backwards. |
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| This book will be available for purchase from your local bookstore, or directly from Editor
at the cost of $12,50 (includes S & H) MAIL TO: Susan Lindsley P.O. Box 33536 Decatur, GA 30033
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Blue Jeans and Pantaloons in |
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Re-released! New Stories! |
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| Her childhood
was populated with such personalities as Flannery O'Connor, Susan Myrick
(of Gone With the Wind), Charles Herty (UGA's first football coach and
developer of paper from pine trees), as well as 76 horses, rustlers, political
leaders, and moonshiners.
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The Bottom Rail
placed third in the novel writing contest sponsored
by the Dahlonega, Georgia Literary Festival in February 2007. |
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| Mountain-bred, the Carters move to middle Georgia and set up their moonshining operation which they expand to rustling to supply beef to the war's black market. Murder, ballot box stuffing, revenge, barn burning, and a shotgun wedding lead them up from the bottom rail to the top of the fence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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