Celestine Sibley

Celestine Sibley (Born May 23, 1917, in Holly, Florida, and died on August 15, 1999, on Dog Island, Florida)[1] was an American journalist and author based in Atlanta.

A friend of Margaret Mitchell in the 1940s, Sibley wrote for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999, and from 1944 was chiefly known as a columnist.[1][2] She wrote 25 books, both nonfiction and fiction, including mystery novels.[1][3]

She covered the Georgia General Assembly as a reporter, and in 2000, the press gallery in the Georgia House of Representatives was named in her honor.[4] She won the first Townsend Prize for Fiction in 1982 for her book Children, My Children.[5] She attended Spring Hill College and the University of Florida.[1]

Sibley's granddaughter, Sibley Fleming, wrote a book about her grandmother, Celestine Sibley: A Granddaughter's Reminiscence. (2000)

Celestine Sibley and Sibley Fleming co-edited a collection of Sibley's writings, The Celestine Sibley Sampler: Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist. (1997)

Selected Writing[1]

"Kate Mulcay" mystery novels

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Purcell, Kim (13 August 2013). "Celestine Sibley (1914-1999)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Barringer, Felicity (August 17, 1999). "Celestine Sibley Is Dead at 85; Columnist Embodied the South". New York Times. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "HR 1184 - Sibley, Celestine; designate House press gallery in her honor". Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "History of the Townsend Prize". Georgia Perimeter College. Retrieved 19 October 2015.


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