It spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, selling two million copies by the end of the year. On September 25, 1991, Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind appeared in bookstores. In 1988 Warner Books successfully bid $4,940,000 for the publishing rights. In 1986 Ripley was chosen to write a sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, Gone With the Wind (1936), by Mitchell’s estate. She followed with a sequel, On Leaving Charleston (1984), and then two more works of historical fiction, The Time Returns (1985) and New Orleans Legacy (1987), the latter of which became a Literary Guild alternative and a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book selection. Ripley published her first historical novel, Charleston, in 1981 while working at a bookstore.

She returned to New York and began working in publishing and then moved to Virginia in the early 1970s to pursue a writing career. In 1963 she returned to Charleston, where she held various positions from travel agent to tour guide to ghost writer. in Russian in 1955, Ripley worked a succession of jobs, living in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Florence, Italy. After graduating from Ashley Hall, she attended Vassar College on a United Daughters of the Confederacy scholarship. Ripley was born in Charleston on January 8, 1934, the daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Braid. OL16064214W Page_number_confidence 96.22 Pages 504 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210819131927 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1420 Scandate 20210817035339 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0446342106 Tts_version 4.Writer. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:06:31 Boxid IA40219607 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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