- Anne Rivers Siddons
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name = Anne Rivers Siddons
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birthname = Sybil Anne Rivers
birthdate = Birth date and age|1936|1|9|mf=y
birthplace =Fairburn, Georgia ,United States
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
period = 1975–present
genre =Southern literature
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website =Anne Rivers Siddons (born
January 9 ,1936 ) is an Americannovelist who writes stories set in thesouthern United States .Biography
Born Sybil Anne Rivers in
Atlanta, Georgia , she was raised inFairburn, Georgia , and attendedAuburn University , [cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-532|date=December 7 , 2005|accessdate=2007-04-02|title="Anne Rivers Siddons"|work=New Georgia Encyclopedia] where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. While at Auburn she wrote a column for the student newspaper, "The Auburn Plainsman ", that favored integration. The university administration attempted to suppress the column, and ultimately fired her, and the column garnered national attention. She later became a senior editor for "Atlanta" magazine. At the age of thirty she married Heyward Siddons, and she and her husband now live inCharleston, South Carolina , and spend summers inMaine ."Peachtree Road", set in Atlanta, was a bestselling novel described as "the Southern novel for our generation" by
Pat Conroy . More than a million copies are in print. In 1989 her book "Heartbreak Hotel" became a movie titled "Heart of Dixie ", which starredAlly Sheedy ,Virginia Madsen ,Phoebe Cates , andTreat Williams .Siddons's book "The House Next Door" was adapted for a made-for-television movie that aired in 2006 on
Lifetime Television , starringMark-Paul Gosselaar , Colin Ferguson, andLara Flynn Boyle . The film tells the story of a woman who is drawn to a home filled with an evil presence that preys on its inhabitants’ weaknesses.Siddons recently signed a three-book contract with
Warner Books and has finished work on her latest novel, titled "Off Season", released August 13, 2008.*
Stephen King , in his non-fiction review of the horror medium, "Danse Macabre ," listed "The House Next Door" as one of the finest horror novels of the 20th Century, and provides a lengthy review of the novel in its "Horror Fiction" section.Works
Novels
* "Heartbreak Hotel" (1976)
* "The House Next Door" (1978)
* "Fox's Earth" (1981)
* "Homeplace" (1987)
* "Peachtree Road" (1988)
* "Kings Oak" (1990)
* "Outer Banks" (1991)
* "Colony" (1992)
* "Hill Towns" (1993)
* "Downtown" (1994)
* "Fault Lines" (1995)
* "Up Island" (1997)
* "Low Country" (1998)
* "Nora, Nora" (2000)
* "Islands" (2004)
* "Sweetwater Creek" (2005)
* "Off Season" (2008)Non-fiction
* "John Chancellor Makes Me Cry" (1975)
Filmography
* "
Heart of Dixie " (1989), based on "Heartbreak Hotel"
* "The House Next Door" (TV) (2006)References
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NAME=Siddons, Anne Rivers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Rivers, Sybil Anne (birth name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Novelist
DATE OF BIRTH=9 January ,1936
PLACE OF BIRTH=Fairburn, Georgia
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