Alexandra Ripley
Alexandra Ripley (née Braid; January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), written as a 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).
Biography
Born Alexandra Elizabeth Braid in
Ashley Hall and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955 with a major in the Russian language.[1] She was married three times: from 1958 to 1963 to Leonard Ripley,[2] an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, from 1971 to 1981 to Thomas Martin Garlock (1929–2008), and in 1981 to John Vincent Graham (1926–2007), a former professor at the University of Virginia
, from whom she was legally separated at the time of her death.
She died of natural causes at her home in Richmond, Virginia, is survived by two daughters.[1]
Selected works
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)
References
- ^ a b Gilpin, Kenneth N. (January 27, 2004). "Alexandra Ripley, 'Scarlett' Author, Dies at 70". The New York Times.
- ^ "Alexandra Ripley, Author of 'Scarlett', the best-selling sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With the Wind'". The Independent. January 31, 2004. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015.
External links
- Alexandra Ripley at IMDb
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