In the mid-1980s, the estate of Margaret Mitchell was looking for an author to write a sequel to Gone with the Wind. This became Charleston (1981), which would be followed by four more novels of the American South. Publishing her first novel, Who's that Lady in the President's Bed? (1972), Ripley was still struggling as an author when, on a trip back to New York City, an editor invited her to write a novel set in the historical South. Tiring of this, she moved to Virginia, where she found low-paying work in a book store and continued to write. in 1955 at Vassar College, where she studied Russian, she tried, unsuccessfully at first, writing novels while working for various New York publishing houses writing copy for dust jackets and catalogs. Ripley was an author of historical novels who gained a measure of notoriety in the early 1990s when she penned the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. See index for CA sketch: Born January 8, 1934, in Charleston, SC died January 10, 2004, in Richmond, VA. RIPLEY, Alexandra (Braid) 1934-2004 OBITUARY NOTICE.
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