![]() ![]() Burns received so many letters pleading for a follow-up novel that she began writing Leaving Cold Sassy. The novel was finally published eight years after it was begun, in 1984. In 1975 she was diagnosed with lymphoma and began to change the family stories into a novel that would later become Cold Sassy Tree. In 1971 Burns began writing down family stories as dictated by her parents. She married Andy Sparks, a fellow journalist. Her sophomore year she transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism.īurns worked for the Atlanta Journal and wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Larkin". Burns attended Mercer University, where she wrote for the college magazine. The Burns family then moved to Commerce, Georgia. Her father was a farmer but was forced to sell his farm in 1931 during the Great Depression. Olive Ann Burns was born in Banks County, Georgia. Olive Ann Burns (J– July 4, 1990) was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984. ![]()
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